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Brachytherapy in thetreatment of the oral and oropharyngeal cancer
- Authors: Zhumankulov A.M.1,2, Ostrinskaya T.V.2, Litvinov A.P.1, Lebedeva Z.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Pavlov First Saint-Petersburg State Medical University
- Saint-Petersburg City Clinical Oncology Dispensary
- Issue: Vol 5, No 4 (2015)
- Pages: 41-47
- Section: LITERATURE REVIEW
- Published: 30.12.2015
- URL: https://ogsh.abvpress.ru/jour/article/view/183
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17650/2222-1468-2015-5-4-41-47
- ID: 183
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Abstract
Background. One of the methods of radiotherapy of malignant tumors of oral cavity and oropharyngeal region today is interstitial radiation therapy – brachytherapy, allowing you to create the optimum dose of irradiation to the tumor, necessary for its destruction, without severe radiation reactions in the surrounding tissues unchanged. Brachytherapy has the following advantages: high precision – the ability of the local summarization of high single doses in a limited volume of tissue; good tolerability; a short time of treatment. At this time, brachytherapy is the method of choice used as palliative therapy and as a component of radical treatment.
Objective: The purpose of this article is a literature review about the latest achievements of interstitial brachytherapy in malignant tumors of the oral cavity and oropharynx.
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A. M. Zhumankulov
Pavlov First Saint-Petersburg State Medical University;Saint-Petersburg City Clinical Oncology Dispensary
Author for correspondence.
Email: fake@neicon.ru
6 / 8 L. Tolstoy St., Saint-Petersburg, 197022;
56 Veteranov Prospekt, Saint-Petersburg, 198255
Russian FederationT. V. Ostrinskaya
Saint-Petersburg City Clinical Oncology Dispensary
Email: tatyanaostrinskaya@yandex.ru
56 Veteranov Prospekt, Saint-Petersburg, 198255 Russian Federation
A. P. Litvinov
Pavlov First Saint-Petersburg State Medical University
Email: fake@neicon.ru
6 / 8 L. Tolstoy St., Saint-Petersburg, 197022 Russian Federation
Z. S. Lebedeva
Pavlov First Saint-Petersburg State Medical University
Email: fake@neicon.ru
6 / 8 L. Tolstoy St., Saint-Petersburg, 197022 Russian Federation
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