Radiotherapy has an integral role in the treatment of head and neck cancer. Although
radiotherapy has the potential to cure patients with advanced disease it also carries the …

Treatment for patients with head and neck cancer requires a multidisciplinary approach.
Radiotherapy is employed as a primary treatment or as an adjuvant to surgery. Each specific …

The treatment of locally advanced or recurrent head and neck cancers has improved from
single modality interventions of surgery and radiation therapy alone to include combined …

External beam radiation therapy has long been a major tool for treating early stage and
locally advanced resectable and unresectable non-metastatic head and neck cancers. In …

Long established as a staple reference for all radiation oncologists, Radiotherapy for Head
and Neck Cancers: Indications and Techniques is now in its Third Edition. This completely …

Over the last decade, major progress has been made in radiation therapy of head and neck
squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The most important developments include the use of …

Head and neck cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the USA. Although there have
been major improvements in surgical and radiation techniques, the overall survival has not …

Conclusion The remarkable advances that have occurred in the space of one working
lifetime make me very optimistic about the future—a future in which head and neck cancer …

Purpose: Radiotherapy (RT) has evolved substantially since its first clinical use in 1896.
Most recently, the introduction of the computed tomography (CT) scan in the 1980s launched …

Increasingly, progress in the radiotherapy of carcinomas of the head and neck is being
driven by principles of radiobiology. This article discusses some of the major advances in …