Risk factors for osteonecrosis of the jaw in oral cancer patients after surgery and eventual adjuvant treatment: The potential role of chemotherapy.
CONCLUSIONS: Mandibulotomy, radiotherapy and platinum-based chemotherapy were associated with an increased ONJ risk. Chemotherapy was a risk factor regardless of whether radiotherapy was administered.
PMID: 28532609 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - Category: Radiology Authors: Lai TY, Wang TH, Liu CJ, Chao TF, Chen TJ, Hu YW Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research
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