Open AccessComparison of radiation and chemoradiation-induced sensorineural hearing loss in head and neck cancer patients
Author(s) -
Seied Rabi Mahdavi,
Abolhasan Rezaeyan,
Alireza Nikoofar,
Mohsen Bakhshandeh,
Saeid Farahani,
Susan Cheraghi
Publication year - 2020
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_891_16
Subject(s) - medicine , common terminology criteria for adverse events , sensorineural hearing loss , pure tone audiometry , head and neck cancer , hearing loss , chemoradiotherapy , audiology , radiation therapy , audiometry , incidence (geometry) , radiology , physics , optics
The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the incidence and severity of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in head-and-neck patients undergoing radiotherapy (RT) and concurrent cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy (CRT).