Palliative radiotherapy: a one-week course in advanced head and neck cancer - quality of life outcomes.

Sadanand PrakashDeep ChakrabartiRajendra KumarManas Mani AgrawalMrinalini VermaSudhir SinghSeema GuptaKirti SrivastavaRajeev GuptaMadan Lal Brahma Bhatt

Published in: BMJ supportive & palliative care (2022)

One-week palliative radiotherapy for head and neck cancers achieves similar QoL and clinical outcomes as more protracted radiotherapy schedules with significantly reduced treatment time and financial toxicity.

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