Radiology and Oncology (Mar 2019)

Prognostic role of diffusion weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in loco-regionally advanced head and neck cancer treated with concomitant chemoradiotherapy

  • Garbajs Manca,
  • Strojan Primoz,
  • Surlan-Popovic Katarina

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2019-0010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 1
pp. 39 – 48

Abstract

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In the study, the value of pre-treatment dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) and diffusion weighted (DW) MRI-derived parameters as well as their changes early during treatment was evaluated for predicting disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous carcinoma (HNSCC) treated with concomitant chemoradiotherapy (cCRT) with cisplatin.

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