How would you approach patients with high risk mucoepidermoid carcinoma (high grade) of the parotid gland for optimal adjuvant treatment?
Would be nice to know all the risk factors - margins, PNI, etc.
Due to high-risk features, adjuvant RT is appropriate and guideline-concordant
However, there is no strong supporting evidence to add adjuvant chemo as salivary gland cancers are typically not chemo-sensitive.
Published real-world data suc...
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer
The question of adjuvant therapy for this high-grade mucoepidermoid cancer is reasonable but I am in agreement with others that RT alone is the appropriate and evidence-based management in this case. Guidance from published literature consists mainly of retrospective case series that are heterogeneo...
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer
Postop RT. 60 Gy/30 fractions for R0, 66/33 for R1, 70/35 for R2 margins
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer
I agree. Data does not yet support radio sensitization for salivary gland tumors.
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer
RT alone
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer