IMRT in the treatment of head and neck cancer: Is the present already the future?

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 297-308

  Cozzi, Luca ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Head and neck radiation therapy; Intensity modulated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLONOGENESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0036083975     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.2.3.297     Document Type: Review

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