Relationship between patient and physician-rated xerostomia and dose distribution to the oral cavity and salivary glands for head and neck cancer patients after radiotherapy.

Conclusion: Patients tended to report higher scores of xerostomia than the physician. PCA indicated a complex relation between doses to the OAR and xerostomia scores, showing e.g., that reducing doses in one organ was on the expense of increased dose to another organ.
PMID: 31241381 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Oncologica - June 25, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kaae JK, Johnsen L, Hansen CR, Kristensen MH, Brink C, Eriksen JG Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research