Brachytherapy in thetreatment of the oral and oropharyngeal cancer
Background. One of the methods of radiotherapy of malignant tumors of oral cavity and oropharyngeal region today is interstitial radiation therapy – brachytherapy, allowing you to create the optimum dose of irradiation to the tumor, necessary for its destruction, without severe radiation reactions i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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ABV-press
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Opuholi Golovy i Šei |
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| Online Access: | https://ogsh.abvpress.ru/jour/article/view/183 |
| Summary: | Background. One of the methods of radiotherapy of malignant tumors of oral cavity and oropharyngeal region today is interstitial radiation therapy – brachytherapy, allowing you to create the optimum dose of irradiation to the tumor, necessary for its destruction, without severe radiation reactions in the surrounding tissues unchanged. Brachytherapy has the following advantages: high precision – the ability of the local summarization of high single doses in a limited volume of tissue; good tolerability; a short time of treatment. At this time, brachytherapy is the method of choice used as palliative therapy and as a component of radical treatment.Objective: The purpose of this article is a literature review about the latest achievements of interstitial brachytherapy in malignant tumors of the oral cavity and oropharynx. |
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| ISSN: | 2222-1468 2411-4634 |