Early mucosal reactions during and after head-and-neck radiotherapy: dependence of treatment tolerance on radiation dose and schedule duration.

PURPOSE: To more precisely localize the dose-time boundary between head-and-neck radiotherapy schedules inducing tolerable and intolerable early mucosal reactions. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Total cell-kill biologically effective doses (BED(CK)) have been calculated for 84 schedules, including incomplet...

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Main Authors: Fenwick, J, Lawrence, G, Malik, Z, Nahum, A, Mayles, W
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008