title: [Results of palliative treatment of advanced regional oropharyngeal cancer].
abstract: We present results of palliative radiotherapy in 76 oropharyngeal advanced cancer patients. We recommend, according to appreciated results of palliative treatment, the two high fractionation dose courses (so called split course) if the first application of high fractionation dose had resulted in partial remission. Conventional fractionation dose in the second part of split course of radiotherapy did not result in better effect in regression, better subjective feeling after radiotherapy and longer survival time in our material. Patients with poor presentation status (Zubrod 3) should be excluded from palliative radiotherapy.
authors.affiliation: II Zakład Teleradioterapii Centrum Onkologii Instytutu im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie w Warszawie.
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authors.lastname: Laskus
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authors.lastname: Szutkowski
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009959:Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010166:Palliative Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Wyniki paliatywnej radioterapii miejscowo zaawansowanego raka płaskonabłonkowego ustnej cześci gardła.