Strategies to Overcome Late Complications from Radiotherapy for Childhood Head and Neck Cancers.

This article discusses the common long-term complications associated with head and neck radiotherapy for childhood cancers. It reviews approaches to minimize toxicity and details the toxicities that head and neck radiation inflicts on relevant functional measures. In addition, it discusses the risk of radiation-induced secondary cancers in childhood cancer survivors, as well as strategies to reduce them. Thus, this article addresses approaches to minimize long-term radiation toxicities in order to improve the quality of life for childhood cancer survivors. PMID: 26614704 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Surgical Clinics of North America - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am Source Type: research