Brachytherapy for lower lip epidermoid cancer: Tumoral and treatment factors influencing recurrences and complications

Low dose rate brachytherapy in lip carcinoma

“…Our results in local control (98%) compare favourably with those in the literature [8][9][10][11][12] (Table 2).…”

“…Dental lead appliance is mandatory to avoid bone necrosis. As stated by Beauvois et al, in a series of 237 patients, before dental protection 11% of mucosal/bone necrosis was observed in contrast with 0% after dental lead appliance [10]. As other authors have previously reported [11,12], we did not observe soft tissue or bone necrosis.…”

Preliminary Report of Pulsed Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Head-and-Neck Cancer

“…Overall, local failure rate in 11% (6.3% in patients applied BT alone which consisted mainly of lip tumors) was similar to the literature data [3,5,7,16,18,19]. This series includes three reirradiated patients; two of them were successfully treated for 6 and 9 months.…”

From low-dose-rate to high-dose-rate brachytherapy in lip carcinoma: Equivalent results but fewer complications

“…Local control increased to 98% after surgical salvage. The studies of Beauvois et al (24) and Gerbaulet et al (25), which included more than 200 patients treated with LDR-BT, described local control rates of 95% and 94.4%, respectively. In a study by Tombolini et al (26), 18% of the patient cohort had locally advanced tumors; the local control rate obtained at 5 years was 90%, which rose to 94% after salvage.…”

“…Tombolini et al reported a 5-year OS of 76% and a causespecific survival of 88% (26). Beauvois et al reported a 74% 5-year OS rate and 91% cause-specific survival rate at 5 years (24).…”