Would you omit radiation to the R0 tonsil tumor bed after TORS for p16+ tonsillar SCC when delivering adjuvant radiation to the neck due to + lymph nodes found intraoperatively?

Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

No This is a strategy being advocated particularly from centers that are strongly surgery driven. There has been at least one publication, but the data so far is with small retrospective sample sizes. There is a certain historic irony, as when postoperative radiation was initially advocated ...

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Radiation Oncologist at University of Michigan
Agree with Dr Garden. An 2019 ASTRO abstract from ...

Radiation Oncologist at Banner M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
There is a dosimetric review that also reports tox...

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