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Effect of time to simulation and treatment for patients with oropharyngeal cancer receiving definitive radiotherapy in the era of risk stratification using smoking and human papillomavirus status.

Mehran Behruj YusufMehran YusufElizabeth CashCraig SilvermanKevin PottsNeal Dunlap
Published in: Head & neck (2018)
Increasing time before RT for patients with oropharyngeal SCC is associated with nodal progression and increased hazard of distant failure, although not PFS or OS in our population.
Keyphrases
  • locally advanced
  • lymph node
  • papillary thyroid
  • early stage
  • neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • radiation therapy
  • smoking cessation
  • radiation induced
  • rectal cancer
  • replacement therapy