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How do you approach post operative radiation therapy to someone with head and neck cancer who has high risk of local recurrence who also has scleroderma?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Michigan

While the risk of morphea (skin and subcutaneous damage ) after radiotherapy to breast ca is well documented, there are very few data about the risk in HNC. Searching Pubmed for: scleroderma, radiotherapy, and head neck, I get only 2 references, one of which is a case report of a severe late toxicit...

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