Proton therapy for head and neck cancer: Rationale, potential indications, practical considerations, and current clinical evidence

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 763-771

  Mendenhall, Nancy P ^a   Malyapa, Robert S ^a   Su, Zhong ^a   Yeung, Daniel ^a   Mendenhall, William M ^a   Li, Zuofeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ASPIRATION; BLINDNESS; BONE NECROSIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER CONTROL; CATARACT; CLINICAL STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; EXPERIENCE; FISTULA; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ION THERAPY; LACRIMAL DUCT OCCLUSION; LECITHIN CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE DEFICIENCY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NOSE CAVITY CANCER; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PARANASAL SINUS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIMULATION; SKULL CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PROTONS;

EID: 79960529088     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2011.590147     Document Type: Review

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