ABSTRACT
Treatment of HNC patients requires a multidisciplinary team approach. Radiotherapy may be employed as a primary mode of management or mostly as an adjuvant to surgery. Each specific anatomic subsite warrants the appropriate techniques of radiotherapy, fields, dose and fractionation scheme. Quality of life of a head and neck cancer patient is very important factor to be addressed in the management of HNC. The complications associated with radiotherapy have a tremendous impact on the quality of life of a cancer patient. Modern radiotherapy techniques, like intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), can deliver precise radiation, thereby reducing the radiation dose to the adjacent normal tissues without a compromise of target coverage.
