Split-Course radiotherapy: A nonideal treatment in a nonideal patient
Background: Radical chemoradiation is the standard of care for locally advanced head-and-neck cancer. However, patients with pretreatment poor risk features exhibit a poor tolerance to these rigorous regimens and are then usually prescribed short-course palliative radiotherapy which provides symptom...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2018-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Head & Neck Physicians and Surgeons |
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Online Access: | http://www.jhnps.org/article.asp?issn=2347-8128;year=2018;volume=6;issue=1;spage=43;epage=47;aulast=Thakur |