Principles of radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer

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Radiation therapy as one of the main specific method of treatment is widely used to treat patients with laryngeal cancer. Currently, the main radiotherapy technique for the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer is linear electron accelerators that can provide individual, complex configurations of radiation volumes. The article presents new modern technologies of radiation therapy in the early and locally-advanced stages of the disease, principles of organ-preservation treatment in laryngeal tumors, indications for pre-and postoperative radiation, methods of prevention of post-therapeutic complications.

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S. B. Alieva

N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: drsevil@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6835-5567

Sevil Bagaturovna Alieva

24 Kashirskoe Hwy, Moscow 115478

Russian Federation

R. I. Azizyan

N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4046-1894

24 Kashirskoe Hwy, Moscow 115478

Russian Federation

A. M. Mudunov

Lapino Clinical Hospital

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0918-3857

1111st Uspenskoe Hwy, Lapino Village, Odintsovsky Dst., Moscow Region 143081

Russian Federation

I. A. Zaderenko

N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0183-4827

24 Kashirskoe Hwy, Moscow 115478

Russian Federation

N. A. Daykhes

National Medical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngology, Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2674-4553

Bld. 2, 30 Volokolamskoe Hwy, 123182, Moscow

Russian Federation

V. Z. Dobrokhotova

N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia; I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5889-392X

24 Kashirskoe Hwy, Moscow 115478; Bld. 4, 2 Bolshaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow 119991

Russian Federation

E. N. Novozhilova

Moscow Cancer Hospital No. 62, Moscow Healthcare Department

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5081-8973

27, Istra Village, Stepanovskoe, Krasnogorskiy Dst., Moscow Region 143423

Russian Federation

S. S. Reshulskiy

National Medical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngology, Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8600-1343

Bld. 2, 30 Volokolamskoe Hwy, 123182, Moscow

Russian Federation

T. N. Borisova

N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5570-684X

24 Kashirskoe Hwy, Moscow 115478

Russian Federation

V. V. Vinogradov

National Medical Research Center for Otorhinolaryngology, Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia

Email: fake@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7808-5396

Bld. 2, 30 Volokolamskoe Hwy, 123182, Moscow

Russian Federation

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