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Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies • Internal Medicine • Pulmonology
What is your approach for a primary tracheal squamous cell carcinoma?
If clinically node negative, would you add elective nodal radiation?
Does it depend on location (upper vs. lower trachea)?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
First off as you probably know this is a randomized data-free zone. So to some extent what to do here is empiric and/or based on historic outcomes, retrospective data, and so on. But here are a few quick & dirty observations...1) Surgical patients have the best survivals/outcomes. Doing tracheal...
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