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For cutaneous SCC of the cheek with microscopic PNI, which nodal levels, if any, do you prophylactically treat?

Do you prophylactically treat the entire parotid gland as well?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Adjuvant radiotherapy for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) can be a complicated subject because of the limited available data. Perineural invasion (PNI) is a reason to consider adjuvant radiotherapy, because several high-quality clinicopathologic correlative analyses have suggested that pati...

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