Abstract:In the past two decades, chemotherapy has been used increasingly as a part of multimodality treatment for patients with advanced carcinomas of the head and neck. In spite of the number of trials over this period, its role remains unclear. In patients with unresectable tumors, induction chemotherapy has failed to improve the bad results of conventional radiotherapy. Concurrent radio-chemotherapy, either given as a simultaneous or alternating combined regimen, is superior to sequential chemotherapy in patients w… Show more
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