Advances in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer.
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.
Mendenhall
W M
WM
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610-0385, USA.
Parsons
J T
JT
Buatti
J M
JM
Stringer
S P
SP
Million
R R
RR
Cassisi
N J
NJ
D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D037981:Neck Dissection; D016634:Radiosurgery; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant