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Critical appraisal of a conformal head and neck cancer irradiation avoiding electron beams and field matching.
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Abstract
In head and neck cancer patients, spinal chains are usually irradiated by a combination of photon and electron beams, requiring high precision in field matching. This study compares a conventional treatment approach where two lateral photon beams are combined to direct electron fields, to a conformal radiotherapy based on five photon fields, covering the whole neck.