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In what situations (if any) would you recommend ENI for a low grade parotid mucoepidermoid carcinoma?

What levels would you cover and to what dose?
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Radiation Oncology · NYC Health + Hospitals
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Not sure if I understand the question correctly but I will give the best answer I can. There aren’t many reasons to treat low-grade parotid mucoep. If you’re treating for positive margins only, I wouldn’t do ENI. If you’re treating for PNI, cover nerves to skull base. If there are positive nodes, treat the involved neck, preauricular nodes, postauricular, and 1 level inferior to the involved level, and spare levels IA and IB. Involved levels get 60Gy, 66Gy if ENE, 54Gy if ENI.

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Radiation Oncology · HCA South Atlantic
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I will never treat neck electively in low-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid. The risk of occult nodal metastasis in low-grade mucoepidermoid cancers of major salivary glands is extremely low.

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