When Disaster Strikes: Mitigating the Adverse Impact on Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Minor interruptions during a course of radiation therapy are inevitable —a pipe bursts, a power supply fails, someone's car breaks down, or it's time for the holidays. These episodic lapses in a course of radiation therapy are expected and unavoidable. However, for tumors with rapid proliferation kinetics (such as head and neck or cervical cancers), a prolongation of overall treatment time can result in a loss in local tumor control probability (1-3).
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Feature Source Type: research