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3/2024
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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor-in-Chief regarding “Adjuvant pulse-dose-rate brachytherapy for oral cavity and oropharynx carcinoma: Outcome and toxicity assessment of 66 patients”

Erkan Topkan
1
,
Efsun Somay
2
,
Ugur Selek
3

  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Adana, Turkey
  2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
J Contemp Brachytherapy 2024; 16, 3: 171–172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2024.141188
Online publish date: 2024/06/28
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5. García-Consuegra A, Gimeno Morales M, Cambeiro M et al. Dose volume histogram constraints in patients with head and neck cancer treated with surgery and adjuvant HDR brachytherapy: A proposal of the head and neck and skin GEC ESTRO Working group. Radiother Oncol 2021; 154: 128-134.
6. Mazeron JJ, Crook JM, Marinello G et al. Prognostic factors of local outcome for T1, T2 carcinomas of oral tongue treated by iridium 192 implantation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1990; 19: 281-285.
7. Guinot JL, Santos M, Tortajada MI et al. Efficacy of high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy in patients with oral tongue carcinoma. Brachytherapy 2010; 9: 227-234.
8. Santos M, Guinot JL, Tortajada M et al. Is perioperative brachytherapy effective in carcinoma of the tongue? J Contemp Brachytherapy 2022; 14: 23-28.
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