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Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology • Non-malignant Disease • Neurology • Neuromuscular
When treating sialorrhea in ALS patients, what treatment schedule do you use?
Assouline et al., PMID 24411632 recommend delivering 500cGy x 4 fractions = 2000cGy on days 1, 3, 8, 10. Do you follow this schedule, treat every other day, or daily?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
This is what our institution does. I utilized this a few months ago.
Kasarskis et al., PMID 21726879
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Never done one but just saw this
Ati et al., Advances Rad Onc, 2023.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
We treated these regularly (1-2 patients per month) in residency at University of Cincinnati with close input from Neurology after failed medical management. I honestly don’t know if they still treat these patients regularly. We would treat one parotid 15 Gy/3 Fx, and evaluate response after a...
As a first step or after a trial of anticholinergi...
After failed medical management, in this particula...
Just finished treating two patients with sialorrhe...