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Radiation Oncology • Melanoma/Skin Cancer
What would be your recommended adjuvant treatment approach for a completely excised lymphoepithelial carcinoma of the right nose recurrent in a left level IB lymph node, status-post excisional biopsy?
Would you recommend additional surgery for the violated neck? Or, would you proceed with adjuvant radiation therapy? If so, would you treat ipsilateral or bilateral lymph nodes? What levels would you include?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Lymphoepithelial ca refers to undifferentiated ca with lymphocyte infiltrates common in the nasopharynx and salivary glands, and in this patient it likely arose from nasal minor glands. The prognosis of patients with this histology arising in the salivary glands is usually quite good after sur...
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