From my readings, and I only read about SCCHN, mainly oropharyngeal, Oral Cancer, dosing above 30Gy will totally destroy the salivary glands, but could be wrong, and will not recover, as other vital structures have limiting toxicity dosing like the brain stem, spinal cord, brachial plexus nerve, so they don't get the full 70Gy. It depends if the salivary glands were involved with cancer, suspected, that would need higher dosage, but it's usually 26Gy to the salivary glands. It doesn't appear it's steady over the course of treatment, according to my colored "cumulative dose volume histogram" which has the dose, ratio of total structure volume (%), and relative dose (%), and have other colored copies of the CT, fields in plans in different positions. I can see my left, cancerous side, field was much larger. It's pretty cool if you can get copies.


10/09 T1N2bM0 Tonsil
11/09 Taxo Cisp 5-FU, 6 Months Hosp
01/11 35 IMRT 70Gy 7 Wks
06/11 30 HBO
08/11 RND PNI
06/12 SND PNI LVI
08/12 RND Pec Flap IORT 12 Gy
10/12 25 IMRT 50Gy 6 Wks Taxo Erbitux
10/13 SND
10/13 TBO/Angiograph
10/13 RND Carotid Remove IORT 10Gy PNI
12/13 25 Protons 50Gy 6 Wks Carbo
11/14 All Teeth Extract 30 HBO
03/15 Sequestromy Buccal Flap ORN
09/16 Mandibulectomy Fib Flap Sternotomy
04/17 Regraft hypergranulation Donor Site
06/17 Heart Attack Stent
02/19 Finally Cancer Free Took 10 yrs