Laryngoscope 2014 Jul

Adjuvant stereotactic body radiotherapy±cetuximab following salvage surgery in previously irradiated head and neck cancer.

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For a patient with H&N squamous cell carcinoma who underwent salvage neck dissection for residual disease following primary chemoradiation with weekly cisplatin, do you offer any adjuvant therapy thereafter if extranodal extension is found?

Medical Oncology · NorthShore University Health System

Here the situation should be clarified and can be nuanced. If the initial chemoradiation was unilateral and the relapse now in the unirradiated neck, then yes, adjuvant chemoradiation is indicated (radiation alone if frail or elderly). If that relapsed neck was already radiated then adjuvant re-irra...