A proportion of advanced stage head and neck cancer patients are incurable and have a limited life expectancy of 100 days or less. The study aimed to offer a short course of palliative radiotherapy (PRT) and evaluate the symptom relief, disease response and duration of survival.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India.