Delay to surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma affects oncologic outcomes.
Kimberley L KiongChristopher M K L YaoFang-Yu LinDiana BellRenata FerrarottoRandal S WeberCarol M LewisPublished in: Cancer (2021)
Emphasis should be placed on early definitive locoregional treatment after NAC, particularly in patients who do not respond to NAC. There is a need to validate these findings and establish new benchmarks for the interval between NAC and surgery.
Keyphrases
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- transcription factor
- locally advanced
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- rectal cancer
- lymph node
- sentinel lymph node
- surgical site infection
- genome wide analysis
- squamous cell carcinoma
- radiation therapy
- prostate cancer
- robot assisted
- early stage
- radical prostatectomy
- coronary artery disease
- type diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
- combination therapy