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Oropharynx

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Radiation Therapy of Head and Neck Cancer

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Oropharyngeal carcinomas are being diagnosed with increasing frequency in the United States. Classically, these tumors occurred in 60 to 70 year old males. Now they are being found with increasing frequency in patients who are in the fourth and fifth decades of life, and the male to female ratio is declining.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, RC-08, University of Washington, 1959 N.E. Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA

    Will Wisbeck M.D. & George E. Laramore Ph.D., M.D.

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    George E. Laramore Ph.D., M.D. (Professor of Radiation Oncology, Clinical Director) (Professor of Radiation Oncology, Clinical Director)

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Wisbeck, W., Laramore, G.E. (1989). Oropharynx. In: Laramore, G.E. (eds) Radiation Therapy of Head and Neck Cancer. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83501-8_7

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