Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

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Radiother Oncol · Jan 2018

Sparing all salivary glands with IMRT for head and neck cancer: Longitudinal study of patient-reported xerostomia and head-and-neck quality of life.

While parotid-sparing intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has demonstrated superiority to conventional RT in terms of observer-rated xerostomia, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have only marginally improved. We investigated how sparing all salivary glands affects PROMs. ⋯ Reducing doses to all salivary glands maximizes PROMs. A cSMG dose constraint of ≤39Gy does not increase failure risk.

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