Radiotherapeutic management of locally advanced head and neck cancer

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
S Ghosh LaskarK A Dinshaw

Abstract

Head and neck cancer management has undergone several paradigm shifts for several relevant reasons. From the dismal experience with the use of radiotherapy as the sole modality in the treatment of this group of patients with advanced disease, radiotherapy has been evaluated as an adjuvant for the same group of patients who had undergone successful surgery. Although there is no level 1 evidence to support postoperative adjuvant radiation, several studies have demonstrated that adjuvant radiotherapy reduces the local failures and, thereby, improves survival. Predictors of recurrence after surgical resection are: positive margins of resection; extranodal spread in involved nodes; perineural invasion; and presence of two or more involved regional lymph nodes. Realization of the advantages of a combination of chemotherapy with radiotherapy has had a major impact on the management of these cancers. There is emerging evidence for the use of adjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy in the group with high-risk features. Multiple organ conservation strategies in the management of locally advanced head and neck cancers have evolved over the years. However, the meta-analyses of impact of chemotherapy in various settings reveal that concomitan...Continue Reading

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