When would you offer post-operative concurrent chemoradiation in anaplastic thyroid cancer?

Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology • Medical Oncology • Thyroid Cancer • Endocrinology

Would you consider it for a patient with good PS but with limited metastatic disease? What dose fractionation would you prefer?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

The management of ATC has evolved considerably over recent years with the most significant being a dichotomy of management based on Braf mutation. We typically offer postoperative XRT, including in patients with either a limited or stable DM disease. However, in a multidisciplinary setting, there s...

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