title: [2008 Update of Standards, Options: recommendations for management of patients with salivary gland malignant tumours (excluding lymphoma, sarcoma and melanoma), summary report].
abstract: The << Standards, Options : Recommendations >> (SOR) project has been undertaken by the French National Federation of Cancer Centers (FNCLCC) is now part of the French National Cancer Institute. The project involves the development and updating of evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) in oncology. This paper is a summary version of the full clinical practice guideline presenting the updated recommendations for management of patients with salivary gland malignant tumours. Recommendations on radiotherapy have been updated to underline new Options on more and more accessible emerging techniques including intensity-modulated radiotherapy, 3D conformational radiotherapy, Cyberknife, tomotherapy, protontherapy and particle accelerators producing carbon ions (e.g. last generation hadrontherapy).
authors.affiliation: Oncologue radiothérapeute, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France.
authors.forename: René-Jean
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Bensadoun
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dassonville
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rousmans