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What dose-fractionation would you use for cutaneous head and neck squamous cell carcinoma status post resection and skin grafting?

Would you offer adjuvant hypofractionated radiation therapy over a graft in the HN region?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida
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I use the same fractionation schedule that I would use otherwise. Split thickness grafts tolerate radiation poorly, particularly on the scalp. Free flaps are preferred. 60 Gy/30 Fx for negative margins, 66/33 for positive margins, and 70/35 for gross disease.

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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60 Gy/30 fractions once healing is adequate. I typically do not use hypofractionated radiotherapy in this situation.

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