Salvage radiotherapy for recurrent hypopharyngeal and laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) after first-line treatment with surgery alone: a 10-year single-centre experience

Salvage radiotherapy for recurrent hypopharyngeal and laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) after first-line treatment with surgery alone: a 10-year single-centre experience

Abstract Purpose Salvage surgery of recurrent hypopharyngeal and laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) results in limited local control and survival rates. As a result of recent technological progress, radiotherapy (RT) has become a valuable, potentially curative therapeutic option. Thus, we aimed...

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Main Authors: Sati Akbaba, Thomas Held, Kristin Lang, Juliane Hoerner-Rieber, Karim Zaoui, Tobias Forster, Stefan Rieken, Peter Plinkert, Juergen Debus, Sebastian Adeberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Squamous cell carcinoma
Recurrent hypopharynx and larynx carcinoma
Salvage radiotherapy
Function preservation
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-019-1238-8

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