Long-Term Taste Impairment after Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy to Treat Head-and-Neck Cancer: Correlations with Glossectomy and the Mean Radiation Dose to the Oral Cavity.

In conclusion, glossectomy is the major cause of long-term taste impairments in head-and-neck cancer patients receiving intensity-modulated radiotherapy. In patients who do not undergo glossectomy, reduction of the mean radiation dose to the oral cavity may reduce taste impairments after intensity-modulated radiotherapy. PMID: 30957861 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Chemical Senses - April 7, 2019 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Chen WC, Tsai MS, Tsai YT, Lai CH, Lee CP, Chen MF Tags: Chem Senses Source Type: research