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Would you offer adjuvant radiation to a low grade myoepithelial carcinoma of the soft palate with positive margins and no other aggressive features?

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Radiation Oncology · UTMB
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This situation is relatively more common when the surgical procedure was an excision biopsy for diagnosis rather than a planned oncological resection.

The usual first Q in this scenario is whether the surgeon could go back and perform a wider excision without compromising function.

This is a tricky ...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida
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Yes.

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
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I would treat if margins were positive.

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