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How would you manage a medically inoperable patient with an invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx and extensive adjacent leukoplakia harboring pathologically-proven in situ disease?

What is your radiotherapy approach? How large is your treatment field, and for the leukoplakia/in situ disease, what is your dose?
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How would you manage a medically inoperable patient with an invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx and extensive adjacent leukoplakia harboring pathologically-proven in situ disease?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida
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Definitive chemo RT using hyperfractionation or SIB with weekly cisplatin. I would treat the CIS and reduce off of it at 64 Gy.

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