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Would you treat a locally advanced head and neck cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with axillary-only mets definitively?

Would you treat with radiation (+/- surgery upfront, if resectable) or systemic therapy?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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I would consider the possibility of another primary tumor from the extremities or trunk as a possible synchronous source of regional metastasis in the axilla. Isolated "distant" metastasis in the axillary lymphatics from a primary tumor on the head and neck is relatively rare, although admittedly, d...

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