Advances in Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer: 2nd Edition
A Special Issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694) belonging to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 260
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Interests: head and neck cancer; breast cancer; prostate cancer; skin cancer; quality assurance
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the second edition of this Special Issue, "Advances in Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/special_issues/86SB6Z3A39).
Head and neck (HN) cancer is one of the most common types of neoplasia across the world. Beyond surgical resection, radiotherapy (RT) is typically the treatment of choice, with almost 75% of patients benefitting from irradiation. In the early stages of HN cancer, radiotherapy can replace the need for surgical resection. Cancer patients can be treated concomitantly with chemoradiotherapy for local advanced cancer or with surgical resection followed by adjuvant radiotherapy. Over the last few decades, technology has rapidly improved, with new techniques such as intensity-modulated RT (IMRT), image-guided RT (IGRT), proton therapy, and magnetic resonance-guided RT (MR-LINAC) now included in routine clinical practice, further enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients. Moreover, adaptive RT and artificial intelligence (AI) have shown excellent results following advancements in clinical practice regarding time-consuming procedures. Nanoparticles and hyperthermia, along with immunotherapy, have also been reported as adjuvant modalities used for improving responses to RT treatment. Re-irradiation remains a crucial subject, with new data available. Alternative schemes of RT, such as hyper- or hypo-fractionation, have also yielded impressive results, with radiobiology playing an important role in RT.
Dr. Vassilis Kouloulias
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adaptive radiotherapy
- hyper- and hypo-fractionated radiotherapy
- artificial intelligence in radiotherapy for head and neck cancer
- quality assurance and set-up errors associated with IMRT, VMAT, IGRT, and SGRT techniques
- protons and heavy ions for radiotherapy
- re-irradiation
- nanoparticles plus radiotherapy
- hyperthermia plus radiotherapy
- radiotherapy plus immunotherapy
- the de-escalation of radiation therapy
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