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Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology
What is your experience and practice patterns when treating midline NUT carcinoma of the head and neck?
Do you routinely include elective nodes in your radiation volume?
How, if at all, does your approach to NUT differ between various sinonasal carcinoma histologies, such as SNUC, ENB, SNEC, low/high grade adenocarcinoma, SCC etc?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Of the neuroendocrine HN cancers, NUT cancers are very rare undifferentiated or poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma defined by rearrangement of the NUTM1 (aka NUT) gene. Due to the rarity of this disease, published reviews include mostly assortments of case reports with conflicting results...
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