Treatment Outcome of a Combined Dose-Escalated Treatment Regime With Helical TomoTherapy® and Active Raster-Scanning Carbon Ion Boost for Adenocarcinomas of the Head and Neck

Treatment Outcome of a Combined Dose-Escalated Treatment Regime With Helical TomoTherapy® and Active Raster-Scanning Carbon Ion Boost for Adenocarcinomas of the Head and Neck

Introduction: Data regarding treatment and survival outcome of patients with adenocarcinoma of the head and neck are limited to case reports and case series. As a consequence of lacking evidence, treatment guidelines do not exist. We aimed to analyze the effect of a bimodal irradiation regime with i...

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Main Authors: Sati Akbaba, Andreas Mock, Juliane Hoerner-Rieber, Thomas Held, Sonja Katayama, Tobias Forster, Christian Freudlsperger, Stefan Rieken, Klaus Herfarth, Peter Plinkert, Juergen Debus, Sebastian Adeberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
salivary gland adenocarcinoma
salivary duct adenocarcinoma
intestinal-type adenocarcinoma
carbon ion radiotherapy
tomotherapy
local control
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2019.00755/full

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