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March 1, 2026

Dysphagia optimized knowledge-based planning for head and neck cancer.

Tu Thi Kirk Luca Justin Roper B. Hopkins E. Schreibmann Austin Smith James Bates Bill Stokes Amit Jethanandani Soumon Rudra Xiaofeng Yang Shadab Momin

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Key Points

The research aims to enhance the sparing of swallowing structures during treatment planning for head and neck cancer.
Targeted addition of individually contoured constrictors to the existing planning model.
Evaluation of plan quality and organs-at-risk dose levels post-optimization.
Comparison against clinical thresholds for safety.
Significant improvement in sparing swallowing structures observed.
No compromise in overall plan quality noted.
Organs-at-risk doses remained within clinical thresholds.

Implication

Optimized planning improves swallowing structure sparing in head and neck cancer, suggesting benefits from targeted data addition.

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Thi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a13571ed1d949a99abf403 https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.70519

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