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The results of nasopharyngeal cancer patients treated by simultaneous integrated boost technique and concomitant chemotherapy

Mehmet Faik ÇetindağAtiye Yılmaz ÖzsavranBülent Yalçınİclal ÇetindağKarabekir ErcanŞeyda TürkölmezDinçer Yeğen
Published in: Turkish journal of medical sciences (2019)
In radiotherapy of advanced NPC, generally a considerable amount of normal head and neck tissues might have to be irradiated in addition to gross tumor volume, involved node, and elective neck irradiation. Together with chemoradiotherapy, poor oral hygiene and inadequate nutritional support result in excessive morbidity. Despite loco-regional success of concurrent chemoradiotherapy, distant metastasis is still the major pattern of treatment failure in the intensity modulated radiotherapy era. We need to improve our adjuvant chemotherapy regimens or develop new drugs.
Keyphrases
  • locally advanced
  • rectal cancer
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • radiation therapy
  • lymph node
  • gene expression
  • patients undergoing
  • weight gain
  • radiation induced
  • early stage
  • combination therapy
  • drug induced
  • oral health