[Brachytherapy for head and neck cancers].

[Brachytherapy for head and neck cancers].
Cancer Radiother. 2018 May 29;:
Authors: Peiffert D, Coche-Dequéant B, Lapeyre M, Renard S
Abstract
The main indications of the brachytherapy of head and neck cancers are the limited tumours of the lip, the nose, the oral cavity and the oropharynx. Nasopharynx tumours are nowadays treated by intensity-modulated radiotherapy. This technique can be exclusive, associated with external radiotherapy or postoperative. It can also be a salvage treatment for the second primaries in previously irradiated areas. If the low dose rate brachytherapy rules remain the reference, the pulse dose rate technique allows the prescription of the dose rate and the optimisation of the dose distribution. Results of high dose rate brachytherapy are now published. This paper reports the recommendations of the Gec-ESTRO, published in 2017, and takes into account the data of the historical low dose rate series, and is upgraded with the pulsed-dose rate and high dose rate series.
PMID: 29858138 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cancer Radiotherapie - May 29, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Peiffert D, Coche-Dequéant B, Lapeyre M, Renard S Tags: Cancer Radiother Source Type: research