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How do you avoid epilation in patients hoping to preserve their facial hair during radiotherapy?

Groomed facial hair is an increasingly common style for men. Accordingly, there are patients who require treatment of the head and neck who become ups...

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Cutis, 2008-02

Cicatricial alopecia secondary to radiation therapy: case report and review of the literature.

International journal of medical physics, clinical engineering and radiation oncology, 2014-08

Dose Reduction to the Scalp with Hippocampal Sparing Is Achievable with Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy.

Technol Cancer Res Treat, 2005 Oct

Treating the contents and not the container: dosimetric study of hair-sparing whole brain intensity modulated radiation therapy.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.,

Treatment volume and tissue tolerance.

JAMA Dermatol,

Assessment and Treatment Outcomes of Persistent Radiation-Induced Alopecia in Patients With Cancer.

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