Prospective randomized trial to compare the outcome and tolerability of delivering the same total dose of radiation in 61/2 weeks versus 51/2 weeks time in head and neck cancers

Background: Concurrent chemoradiation is currently considered to be the standard of care in the treatment of head and neck cancer. In developing countries like ours, a good number of patients cannot tolerate chemoradiation because of the poor general condition and financial constraints. Those patien...

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Main Authors: Manoj Gupta, Siddharth Vats, Tapesh Bhattacharyya, Rajeev K Seem, Manish Gupta, Rohit Mahajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2015-01-01
Series:South Asian Journal of Cancer
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Online Access:http://journal.sajc.org/article.asp?issn=2278-330X;year=2015;volume=4;issue=3;spage=118;epage=122;aulast=Gupta