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 …

Conformal and intensity modulated irradiation of head and neck cancer: the potential for
improved target irradiation, salivary gland function, and quality of life. - Abstract - Europe …

PURPOSE: To minimize xerostomia in patients receiving bilateral head and neck irradiation
(RT) by using conformal RT planning to spare a significant volume of one parotid gland from …

Purpose: Conformal treatment using static multisegmental intensity modulation was
developed for patients requiring comprehensive irradiation for head and neck cancer. The …

Purpose: Conventional radiotherapy for cancers of the head and neck (HN) can yield
acceptable locoregional tumor control rates, but toxicity of many normal tissues limits our …

Objectives: In a prospective clinical study, we tested the hypothesis that sparing the parotid
glands may result in significant objective and subjective improvement of xerostomia in …

Recent efforts to reduce xerostomia associated with irradiation (RT) of head and neck
cancer include the use of conformal and intensity-modulated RT (IMRT) to partly spare the …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To investigate the salivary gland function following
intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancer. PATIENTS AND …

Background. Our aim was to correlate patterns of failure with target volume delineations in
patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) treated with intensity …

Purpose: To assess long-term xerostomia in patients receiving parotid-sparing radiation
therapy (RT) for head-and-neck cancer, and to find the patient and therapy-related factors …