Dose Volume Histogram Constraints in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer treated with Surgery and Adjuvant HDR Brachytherapy: A Proposal of the Head and Neck and Skin GEC ESTRO Working Group

The recent update of the web-based GEC-ESTRO handbook of brachytherapy [1] has brought into attention the lack of standardized constraints based on dose volume histogram (DVH) data in head and neck brachytherapy. This is specially noteworthy in an anatomical area where treatment complications may be severe in a substantial number of cases.

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Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology - September 13, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Alejandro Garc ía-Consuegra, Marta Gimeno Morales, Mauricio Cambeiro, Luca Tagliaferri, Gyoergy Kovacs, Erik Van Limbergen, Luis I. Ramos, José Manuel Arnaiz, Juan Alcalde, Fernando Lecanda, Rafael Martinez-Monge Tags: Original Article Source Type: research