Lip cancer treatment with high dose rate brachytherapy

Low dose rate brachytherapy in lip carcinoma

“…Our results in local control (98%) compare favourably with those in the literature [8][9][10][11][12] (Table 2).…”

“…As stated by Beauvois et al, in a series of 237 patients, before dental protection 11% of mucosal/bone necrosis was observed in contrast with 0% after dental lead appliance [10]. As other authors have previously reported [11,12], we did not observe soft tissue or bone necrosis.…”

Preliminary Report of Pulsed Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Head-and-Neck Cancer

“…Overall, local failure rate in 11% (6.3% in patients applied BT alone which consisted mainly of lip tumors) was similar to the literature data [3,5,7,16,18,19]. This series includes three reirradiated patients; two of them were successfully treated for 6 and 9 months.…”

From low-dose-rate to high-dose-rate brachytherapy in lip carcinoma: Equivalent results but fewer complications

“…Because of its recent implementation, the number of published articles dealing with HDR-BT for lip carcinoma is small. The first HDR article was published in 2003 and reported on a series of 39 patients with a median followup of 18 months and a local control rate of 95% in T1eT2 tumors and 74% in T4 tumors (8). Other subsequent studies have included a smaller number of patients (9e12).…”