Acute effects of Radiotherapy in patients with Head and Neck Cancer: IMRT vs RapidArcTM | Zendy

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Acute effects of Radiotherapy in patients with Head and Neck Cancer: IMRT vs RapidArcTM

Author(s) -

Liliana Silva,

B. Barbosa,

Marisa Matos

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

biomedical and biopharmaceutical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2182-2379

pISSN - 2182-2360

DOI - 10.19277/bbr.10.2.64

Subject(s) - medicine , larynx , radiation therapy , pharynx , head and neck cancer , esophagus , head and neck , radiology , cancer , surgery

Radiation therapy is a standard treatment in the multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of head and neck carcinomas (HNC). The description and perception of the effects caused by the treatment in the normal tissues is important for the clinical evaluation of the patient because treatment is interrupted if the patient develops several acute side effects which directly affect their survival. This study involved 46 patients over 6 weeks of treatment and evaluated the observed acute effects of treatment in five different anatomical areas skin, mucosa, salivary glands, pharynx /esophagus and larynx. This evaluation adopted the classification of the Acute Radiation Morbidity Scoring Criteria of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG). Data analysis revealed that the acute effects related to the RapidArcTM technique appeared earlier when compared to IMRT techniques. On the other hand, the IMRT technique showed more exacerbated high-grade effects.

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