Purpose: To analyze the patterns of locoregional failure in patients with head-and-neck
cancer treated with inverse planning intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). Methods and …

Summary Purpose:: Purpose: Analysis of locoregional failure in head-and-neck cancer
(HNC) following intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), with focus on the location of …

Purpose: We present the guidelines for target volume determination and delineation of head-
and-neck lymph nodes based on the analysis of the patterns of nodal failure in patients …

PURPOSE: Locoregional (LR) failures near the base of the skull, and their relationships to
the targets in the high neck, were examined in a series of patients who underwent intensity …

Purpose: To analyze the patterns of local-regional recurrence in patients with head and neck
cancer treated with parotid-sparing conformal and segmental intensity-modulated …

PURPOSE: To review the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) experience of using
intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to treat head-and-neck cancer focusing on the …

The goals of this study were to facilitate sparing of the major salivary glands while
adequately treating tumor targets in patients requiring comprehensive bilateral neck …

Purpose: Various published reports involving intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans
developed using automated optimization (inverse planning) have demonstrated highly …

Background The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of adaptive replanning on
clinical outcome among patients treated by intensity‐modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for …

Purpose: Many patients with head-and-neck (H&N) cancer have tumor shrinkage and/or
weight loss during the course of radiotherapy. We conducted this retrospective study to …