What dose do you use for definitive treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the cervical esophagus?
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Our institutional preference is to employ a total dose to 70 Gy with concurrent chemotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the cervical esophagus, because a local failure in would require salvage surgery with pharyngo-laryngo-esophagectomy. The role of dose escalation in squamous cell carcinomas o...
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Radiation Oncologist at Radiation Oncology of Atlanta Three years later, is there agreement with total d...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
We recently wrote a review on this topic so I had a chance to go through the literature (or lack thereof) on dose escalation for the cervical esophagus. Given the relative rarity of this entity in the US compared to Asia, it is hard to find good data guiding on us on what we should do. T...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center @Michael Buckstein well summarizes the data (...
Three years later, is there agreement with total d...