How do you manage a patient with isolated local recurrence of head and neck cancer with a pharyngocutaneous fistula within previously irradiated field?

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Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Resection if feasible (unlikely) or palliatively.

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