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Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology
What is your approach for treating oligometastatic head and neck cancer in patients with a good performance status?
Do you routinely offer definitive head and neck chemoradiation and aggressive local therapies to the oligometastatic sites?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In patients with limited metastases and locally advanced head and neck cancer, we routinely offer definitive radiation therapy to the local disease, consider treatment of the metastatic site, and discuss addition of concurrent chemotherapy.
The majority of these patients will benefit from loc...
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