Safety of low-dose brachytherapy for the treatment of oral cancer
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Safety of low-dose brachytherapy for the treatment of oral cancer

Dion Smyth Lecturer-practitioner, Cancer and palliative care at Birmingham City University

Low-dose-rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT) for T1-2N0M0 oral cancers is a safe treatment, regardless of the presence of severe comorbidities, analysis of the records of 180 patients in Japan has found.

Cancer Nursing Practice. 11, 1, 13-13. doi: 10.7748/cnp.11.1.13.s9

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