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Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology
Do you treat the contralateral RP nodes up to the base of skull in a node-negative neck if the primary tumor involves any hypopharyngeal subsite?
For example, a larynx primary with direct extension to medial pyriform sinus?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
An older Red Journal article (Chao et al., 2002) provides some recommendations on RP coverage on the basis of recurrence data/ nodal involvement at presentation as stratified by subsite. The tables in this paper have many strata, however briefly according to the data compiled in this paper of the p...
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