Risk factors for osteoradionecrosis of the jaw in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Hikaru KubotaDaisuke MiyawakiNaritoshi MukumotoTakeaki IshiharaMegumi MatsumuraTakumi HasegawaMasaya AkashiNaomi KiyotaHirotaka ShinomiyaMasanori TeshimaKen-Ichi NibuRyohei Sasaki

Published in: Radiation oncology (London, England) (2021)

V60 > 14% and oropharyngeal or oral cancer were found to be independent risk factors for ORNJ. These findings might be useful to minimize ORNJ incidence in HNSCC treated with curative RT.

Keyphrases

risk factors
rectal cancer
prognostic factors