What is the recommended treatment approach for stage III/IVA nasopharyngeal cancer that is p16 negative and EBV positive?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
The recommended treatment approach for stage III/IVA EBV-positive nasopharyngeal cancer is induction chemotherapy with gemcitabine/cisplatin followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy with cisplatin.This was established in a phase 3 trial that compared induction chemotherapy plus concurrent chemoradio...
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Medical Oncologist at McLaren Health Care Would the presence of a lymph node in the axilla u...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
While the paper from NEJM is compelling, the authors follow up in 2022 with their "final" analysis in JCO
Zhang et al., PMID 35709465
The overall results hold up, with an ~9% absolute OS improvement at 5 years; however, they did do a subgroup analysis by serum free EBV-DNA dividing by >4000 cop...
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I think with an immature trial and other conc...
Would the presence of a lymph node in the axilla u...