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July 10, 2024Clinical OncologyOpen Access

Decreased rates of radiation-induced trismus and lowered mastication structure doses in patients treated for head and neck cancer during the last two decades

Niclas Pettersson E Andersson Nina Pauli Lisa Tuomi Caterina Finizia Caroline Olsson

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Abstract

To investigate how absorbed doses to mastication structures in modern radiotherapy (RT) technique for head and neck cancer (HNC) compared with earlier RT techniques and with published trismus tolerance doses. To compare the incidence of radiation-induced trismus by earlier and newer RT techniques.

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Pettersson et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e60be9b6db64358759ecea https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2024.07.003

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