Affiliations 

  • 1 Advanced Medical and Dental Institute, University Sains Malaysia, Bertam, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
  • 2 Radiotherapy and Oncology Department, Sarawak General Hospital, Malaysia
  • 3 National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
Rep Pract Oncol Radiother, 2021;26(4):647-653.
PMID: 34434581 DOI: 10.5603/RPOR.a2021.0076

Abstract

Brachytherapy (BT) is an important local treatment of tumor and it can be applied to different anatomical sites either in a curative or palliative setting. BT can deliver large dose of radiation to the tumor while sparing the surrounding normal tissue which translates into a better therapeutic ratio compared to external beam radiotherapy. However, the evidence for the use of brachytherapy in the palliative setting is lacking in the literature. In this case report, we describe the brachytherapy technique and outcome of a patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx who underwent palliative brachytherapy to the hypopharynx and metastatic tumor at the right axilla.

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