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What would your approach be for a locally advanced head and neck cancer diagnosed concurrently with a mid-esophageal cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · Emory University
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In the handful of similar cases that I have seen, I have worked with medical oncology to tease out a concurrent chemotherapy regimen. What we have often ended up doing is treating the head and neck cancer as normal (to 70 Gy) and the esophagus cancer to a relatively standard dose (usually to 50 Gy t...

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