Feasibility of image-guided radiotherapy based on helical tomotherapy to reduce contralateral parotid dose in head and neck cancer

BACKGROUND:To evaluate the feasibility of image-guided radiotherapy based on helical Tomotherapy to spare the contralateral parotid gland in head and neck cancer patients with unilateral or no neck node metastases.METHODS:A retrospective review of 52 patients undergoing radiotherapy for head and nec...

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Nam, Vos, Paul, Vinh-Hung, Vincent, Ceizyk, Misty, Smith-Raymond, Lexie, Stevie, Michelle, Slane, Benjamin, Chi, Alexander, Desai, Anand, Krafft, Shane, Jang, Siyoung, Hamilton, Russ, Karlsson, Ulf, Abraham, Dave
Other Authors: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Online Access:Nguyen et al. BMC Cancer 2012, 12:175 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/12/175
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610349
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610349