Would you offer adjuvant TKI to patients with locally recurrent multifocal adenoid cystic carcinoma?

Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Medical Oncology

For example, for a patient that has been through multiple disfiguring surgeries and radiation and wants to delay time to next resection.

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

I would not give a TKI in the adjuvant setting following a local recurrence that was resected. The only data that we have with these agents are in the setting of metastatic disease. The likelihood of recurrence, I believe, would be quite high once the agents are stopped, as we do not know how long o...

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