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How would you approach distant oligometastatic HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer previously treated with definitive local therapy?

Would you offer locoregional control alone, locoregional with adjuvant therapy, or active surveillance?
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Medical Oncology · University of Michigan Medical School
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Patients who present with a single focus of disease outside of their local regional disease, technically have stage IVC (i.e. widespread metastatic) disease. Such patients could be offered a palliative course of RT to their locally advanced disease followed by systemic chemotherapy; however, given t...

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