Prospective radiotherapy for patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma – Authors' reply

Of particular relevance is that failure patterns for this disease appear to be dominated by distant metastasis, which is hardly surprising given the high rates of local-regional control observed with standard regimens.3 Although several single-institutional retrospective series have been published s...

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Published in:The lancet oncology 2017-08, Vol.18 (8), p.e426-e426
Main Authors: Chen, Allen M, Beron, Phillip J, Wong, Deborah, Rosove, Michael H, Rao, Shyam D, Steinberg, Michael L, Kupelian, Patrick A, Daly, Megan E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cancer therapies
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - radiotherapy
Chemotherapy
Human papillomavirus
Humans
Metastases
Mouth Neoplasms - radiotherapy
Oropharyngeal cancer
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms
Prospective Studies
Radiation therapy
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Summary:Of particular relevance is that failure patterns for this disease appear to be dominated by distant metastasis, which is hardly surprising given the high rates of local-regional control observed with standard regimens.3 Although several single-institutional retrospective series have been published showing the efficacy of a strategy involving radiotherapy alone for selected patients with locally advanced HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer, no such data currently exist in the setting of de-escalation.4,5 The eagerly anticipated results of the ongoing...
ISSN:1470-2045
1474-5488
DOI:10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30534-X