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Surgery and radiation therapy are standard treatments for lip cancer. Surgery includes removal of all cancer-related tissue and facial reconstruction (cosmetic and functional) of the lips. Reconstruction procedures are available but give a less satisfactory cosmetic result than brachytherapy. In addition, the use of high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) is now becoming more popular than low-dose-rate (LDR) and pulsed-dose-rate (PDR) BT in the treatment of lip cancer since HDR-BT offers the advantage of optimizing dose distribution by varying dwell times.

Source: Brachytherapy - September 1, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Sang June Park, Serhii Brovchuk, Zoia Shepil, Oleg Vaskevych, Puja Venkat Source Type: research