Lorena Draghini, Valentina Lancellotta, Bruno Fionda, Martina De Angeli, Patrizia Cornacchione, Mariangela Massaccesi, Fabio Trippa, Gyoergy Kovács, Alessio Giuseppe Morganti, Francesco Bussu, Roberto Iezzi, Luca Tagliaferri
PURPOSE: Brachytherapy (BT), also known as interventional radiotherapy (IRT), has proven its utility in the treatment of localized tumors. The aim of this review was to examine the efficacy of modern BT in early-stage oral cavity cancer (OCC) in terms of local control (LC), overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), cancer-specific survival (CSS), and safety. METHODS: The SPIDER framework was used, with sample (S), phenomena of interest (PI), design (D), evaluation (E), and research type (R) corresponding to early-stage oral cavity cancer (S); BT (PI); named types of qualitative data collection and analysis (D); LC, OS, DFS, CSS, and toxicity (E); qualitative method (R)...
December 18, 2023: Strahlentherapie und Onkologie: Organ der Deutschen Röntgengesellschaft ... [et Al]