## Abstract The major advances in radiation oncology in this century was the development of megavoltage radiation in the 1950s, which greatly expanded the clinical utility of ionizing radiation in the treatment of many forms of cancer, including cancers of the head and neck. The combination of radi
Accelerated radiation therapy in the treatment of very advanced and inoperable head and neck cancers
✍ Scribed by Antoine Lusinchi; Eric Lartigau; Bernard Luboinski; Franiçois Eschwege
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 556 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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