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Would you recommend concurrent chemotherapy for a T1N1 oropharynx cancer if the patient underwent excisional biopsy of the node and was found to have ECE?

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Radiation Oncology · Hackensack-Meridian

Let's look at it this way. If he had surgery with neck dissection and had pT1,N1 with ECE, one would recommend concurrent chemoRT post-op. Both the EORTC and RTOG trials included this subgroup of patients. The subset analysis of the long term follow up of RTOG 9501 showed increased local control and...

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