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What is your approach in deciding to include the entire tongue or a smaller volume (tumor surgical bed + margin) for adjuvant radiation in oral tongue cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Michigan

I would treat the large majority of the tongue, unless I had a very good method to immobilize the tongue (which I do not have; a bite block is not enough).

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

Smaller

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