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The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of oral cavity cancer

Author(s) -

Joaquín J. Cabrera-Rodríguez

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

plastic and aesthetic research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2349-6150

pISSN - 2347-9264

DOI - 10.20517/2347-9264.2016.13

Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , brachytherapy , head and neck cancer , cancer , radiation oncologist , oral cavity , adverse effect , head and neck squamous cell carcinoma , oncology , external beam radiotherapy , radiation treatment planning , medical physics , stage (stratigraphy) , radiology , paleontology , orthodontics , biology

Radiotherapy plays a critical role in the treatment of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma as monotherapy in early stage cancer or combined with surgery and/or chemotherapy in advances ones. Recent developments in the imaging of cancer and radiation technology have allowed developing more precise delivery of treatment with recent data demonstrating improvement in survival and lessening of adverse toxics effects of radiation. This review will focus in the recent advances and current state-of-the-art in radiation oncology both external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy. As complexity of cancer treatments increases a close coordination between headneck surgeons and radiation oncologist is needed due to a significant proportion of patients will be treated with combined modality therapy.

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