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Aside from ECE or positive surgical margins, when (if ever) would you offer post-operative chemoradiation in patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck?

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Aside from ECE and positive margins, we also offer postop chemoRT to oral cavity cancer with MULTIPLE risk features: for example, a combination of the following: large tumor, bony invasion, close margins, PNI and LVI. We feel oral cavity cancers are more aggressive and have much worse prognosis if m...

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