What dose-fractionation do you utilize when treating at-risk and elective lymph node levels in patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma?
Do you reduce the dose in such cases? Do you treat with six fractions per week similar to RTOG 1016 (w/ or without chemo)?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Altered fractionation 50.4 at 1.2 bid or 56 at 1.6 per fx 6 fx per week
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
For HPV+ OPC getting definitive concurrent chemoRT, we have been treating the elective nodal levels to 30 Gy at 2 Gy per fraction in the past 5 years (Tsai et al., PMID 35050342). For those treated with definitive RT alone (or with cetuximab) or in the adjuvant setting, we did not reduce the dose in...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Florida Looking good but follow-up is short. Cautious.&nbs...