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Would you ever NOT recommend adding concurrent chemotherapy to adjuvant radiation in +ECE oropharynx SCC patients who can tolerate it?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
For now, always CCRT post op for ECE.

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

I do not recommend initial surgery unless there is a good chance of avoiding postoperative RT. I think that the outcomes are no better, treatment can likely be safely deintensified in HPV positive non smokers, and many patients probably undergo an unnecessary neck dissection that could have been avo...

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