Do you require both biopsy of the primary in addition to nodes in your practice for HNC?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
While it is ideal to get biopsy from a putative primary and putative nodes, I do not think that it is needed.
In cases with a known mucosal H+N primary and several PET avid nodes, I would almost never request biopsy and just treat those as gross disease.
The more challenging situation is when you ...
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