Open AccessFunctional and biochemical changes in the thyroid gland following exposure to therapeutic doses of external beam radiotherapy in the head-and-neck cancer patients
Author(s) -
Amritjot Singh Randhawa,
Hanuman Prasad Yadav,
Raja Paramjeet Singh Banipal,
Gitanjali Goyal,
Pardeep Garg,
Sapna Marcus
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_148_19
Subject(s) - medicine , subclinical infection , thyroid , radiation therapy , head and neck cancer , thyroid function tests , thyroid cancer , nuclear medicine , radiology , external beam radiotherapy , brachytherapy
Majority of the head-and-neck cancers are locoregionally advanced at the time of diagnosis. Hence, radiotherapy (RT) portals will invariably cover the whole neck and thus, the thyroid gland which may lead to its dysfunction.