Adjuvant Therapy for Resected Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck
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Introduction The standard definitive treatment of locoregionally advanced squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (SCCHN) is either concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) or appropriate surgical resection followed by adjuvant therapy directed by pathologic risk factors. However, local or regional recurrences and distant metastases remain frequent after surgical treatment of stage III or IV disease [1,2]. Radiation therapy (RT) is added to surgery to decrease locoregional failure. Adjuvant RT has been shown to improve locoregional control compared to neoadjuvant RT in a multi-institutional randomized trial [3].
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