How would the updated results of ECOG 3311 influence your adjuvant RT recommendations for HPV+ OPSCC?
Would you consider de-escalation to 50 Gy for patients who meet the intermediate-risk criteria? Are you more likely to offer adjuvant RT to patients with 1 positive node as the sole indication?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This question refers to this manuscript (Burtness et al., PMID 40493877), which is a 4.5-year follow-up of ECOG E3311.The results broadly mirror those seen in previous reports. The most notable novel finding reported is that among patients with low-risk features (who did not get any adjuvant RT), th...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Kansas School of Medicine Agree completely on all points. I share some of th...
Radiation Oncologist at Radiation Oncology Associates Just to play devil's advocate on your recommendati...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Remember that ECOG 3311 was a Phase II trial and the study was not powered to show non-inferiority between Arms B & C, but rather, in the words of the Ferris et al. publication, "to generate normative data regarding TOS (transoral surgery) and the feasibility of reduced postoperative radiation d...
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Radiation Oncologist at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center Agree with this. When it comes to phase II-level d...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
They still don't change much.a) The <15% recurrence rate in 27 N1 patients in Arm A, to me, does not justify radiating these patients. Historically 15% was a magic number to justify a risk where radiation was warranted (and I believe referenced in the first edition of Million and Cassisi's classi...
Agree completely on all points. I share some of th...
Just to play devil's advocate on your recommendati...