Three discipline collaborative radiation therapy special debate: All head and neck cancer patients with intact tumors/nodes should have scheduled adaptive replanning performed at least once during the course of radiotherapy

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
² Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷ Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁸ Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA.

Emilie Soisson et al. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;20(5):7-11.

doi: 10.1002/acm2.12587. Epub 2019 Apr 15.

¹ Department of Radiology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
² Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁷ Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁸ Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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