HIV-positive head and neck cancer patients benefit from radiation therapy
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 12:01
in Health & Medicine
HIV-positive head and neck cancer patients respond well to radiation therapy treatments and experience similar toxicity rates as non-HIV-positive patients, despite prior reports to the contrary, according to a study in the January issue of the International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics, an official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).