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Head and Neck Cancers
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Radiation Oncology
What definitive dose would you use to treat a recurrent basal cell carcinoma in the oral cavity?
Would you hypofractionate at all? Or use standard H&N doses of 70 Gy/35 fractions?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I don’t recall seeing a BCC in the oral cavity. Lips? 66-70 Gy at 2 Gy per fraction.
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Radiation Oncologist at UH Seidman Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University
Thanks @William M. Mendenhall! In this partic...
Radiation Oncologist at University of Florida
Got it. 70 Gy/35 fractions
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Thanks @William M. Mendenhall! In this partic...
Got it. 70 Gy/35 fractions