Clinical evaluation of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head and neck cancers

SA Bhide, KL Newbold, KJ Harrington… - The British journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Radiotherapy and surgery are the principal curative modalities in treatment of head and
neck cancer. Conventional two-dimensional and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy in the standard management of head and neck cancer: promises and pitfalls

WM Mendenhall, RJ Amdur, JR Palta - Journal of clinical oncology, 2006 - ascopubs.org
The purpose of this article is to review the role of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in
the standard management of patients with head and neck cancer through a critical review of …

[HTML][HTML] Can intensity-modulated-radiotherapy reduce toxicity in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma?

J Van der Veen, S Nuyts - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is a modern radiotherapy technique that was
implemented in the mid-1990s. It allows closer shaping of dose, to target volumes, thereby …

Clinical use of intensity-modulated radiotherapy: part I

MT Guerrero Urbano, CM Nutting - The British Journal of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is a novel conformal radiotherapy technique which
is gaining increasing clinical use worldwide. This article aims to summarize the published …

Intensity‐modulated radiotherapy for head and neck surgeons

SI Gutiontov, EJ Shin, B Lok, NY Lee… - Head & neck, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The development of intensity‐modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has played a major role in
improving outcomes and decreasing morbidity in patients with head and neck cancer. This …

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

G Ozyigit, T Yang, KSC Chao - Current treatment options in oncology, 2004 - Springer
Opinion statement Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) involves the delivery of
optimized nonuniform beam intensities to the patient. In the head and neck region, there are …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy in the treatment of head and neck cancer

B O'Sullivan, RB Rumble, P Warde… - Clinical oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is a newer method of radiotherapy that uses
intensity-modulated beams that can provide multiple intensity levels for any single-beam …

Future issues in highly conformal radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

M Feng, A Eisbruch - Journal of clinical oncology, 2007 - ascopubs.org
Improving the conformity of the radiation dose to targets in the head and neck promises
reduced toxicity and, in some cases, potentially improved local-regional tumor control …

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy in the treatment of head and neck cancer

A Eisbruch - Nature clinical practice oncology, 2005 - nature.com
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a new technical improvement of
radiotherapy, in which computer-controlled treatment machines produce multiple beams of …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy in head and neck cancer—an update for oral and maxillofacial surgeons

PA Brennan, KL Bradley, M Brands - British Journal of Oral and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), a relatively new method of delivering
radiotherapy, can precisely target a point within a specific tumour and reduce the dose to …