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In the setting of adjuvant treatment for locally advanced oral cavity cancer, would you offer altered/hypofractionated courses for elderly patients with lower functional status?

Any experiences using 50/20 with a break, or 30/5 in the adjuvant setting?
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Radiation Oncology · Yale University
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At our institution, elderly patients with locally advanced oral cavity cancers who are treated with curative intent oncological resection are typically also treated with curative intent conventionally fractionated adjuvant radiation based on pathological risk factors. For elderly patients with lower...

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It would depend on how debilitated and how high risk (positive margins, ENE, etc.).

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