Biomedical subjects

G G Hibbs

Publications and source records attributed to G G Hibbs.

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PubMed1976

Effective bone palliation as related to various treatment regimens.

Various dose-time treatment plans have been used to obtain long duration pain relief in patients with metastatic bone disease. Very little has appeared in the literature evaluating the relationship of dose and fractionation to initial, delayed and permanent bone pain relief. At the Swedish Hospital Tumor Institute, 152 treatment fields in 110 patients were evaluated, with a clinical follow-up in many of over five years. Those treated at lower total doses with less fractionation achieved the same quality and duration of pain relief as higher doses. Treatment plans also were compared using the Ellis method of nominal standard dose.

Bone Neoplasms↗

PubMed1975

Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx.

While many clinicians would intuitively believe that surgical treatment of laryngeal carcinoma is superior to irradiation, we have found that in many instances this is not the case. When the results of initial radiation therapy combined with the surgical salvage rates for irradiation failures are analyzed and compared with the results of initial surgery and subsequent salvage of surgical failures, the overall cure rates are quite comparable. This point has not been sufficiently emphasized in the treatment of laryngeal cancer. Its importance lies in the ability to offer a significant percentage of patients a form of treatment which carries with it much less functional morbidity without asking the patient to assume a greater risk with regard to the overall cure rate. This non-randomized retrospective study will analyze our experience in the treatment of laryngeal cancer with specific emphasis on the overall cure rate when megavoltage teletherapy is combined with surgical salvage of radiation failures.

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell↗

PubMed1970