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Review
. 1995 May-Jun;11(3):256-64.
doi: 10.1002/ssu.2980110311.

Advances in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

W M Mendenhall  1 , J T Parsons, J M Buatti, S P Stringer, R R Million, N J Cassisi
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Review

Advances in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

W M Mendenhall et al. Semin Surg Oncol. 1995 May-Jun.

Abstract

Selected advances in radiotherapy for treatment of head and neck cancer are reviewed. These include the role of postoperative radiotherapy, planned postirradiation neck dissection, altered fractionation, neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for laryngeal preservation, three-dimensional conformal treatment planning, charged particle irradiation for skull base tumors, and stereotactic radiosurgery.

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