[Current strategies in radiotherapy of head- and neck cancer].

Over the last 20 years there was a dramatic change in therapeutic options for head and neck tumors mainly due to improvements in surgical and radiotherapeutic techniques and in the increasing use of multimodal therapy. Especially for locally advanced tumors, one can achieve long lasting disease free intervals in a large proportion of patients. The following article will focus on the novel techniques in radiation oncology and combined radiochemotherapy giving an overview without too many technical details.