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Radiation-Induced Xerostomia in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Treated With Comprehensive Salivary Gland-Sparing Helical Tomotherapy Technique Based on a Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network.

Journal of clinical medicine research · Teng F, Liu QT, Meng LL, Ju ZJ, Dai XK, Zhang XX, Ma L · 2026-09-26

Researchers developed an artificial neural network model to predict which head and neck cancer patients treated with salivary gland-sparing radiotherapy would develop dry mouth, identifying age, gender, and submandibular gland radiation dose as key risk factors.

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