When treating locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma with chemoradiation, do you offer adjuvant, induction, or no additional chemotherapy beyond standard chemoradiation?

Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology • Medical Oncology

How do you decide? Do the results of recently published phase III data in the Lancet Oncology (Sun et al, Sept 2016) influence your decision making?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

I try to enroll any pateint on the current NRG protocol. I will, however, consider adjuvant chemotherapy in some cases, i.e. those with bulkly disease upon imaging after definitive chemoRT, suggesting that the patient may not have had a CR to definitive therapy (who are not study candidates). Sin...

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Medical Oncologist at Kaiser Permanente
Does the results of the NEJM induction with cis/ge...

Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
No. The NEJM trial just informs us that if we were...

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