Comparative Analysis of Postoperative Radiotherapy Dose Escalation in Oral Cavity Cancer Patients with Positive Margins: A Propensity Score-Matched Study
Dose escalation to 66 Gy for PM during adjuvant RT for PO OCSCC can be used as an alternative strategy to reresection, especially in patients who have poor performance status, who have negative consent for surgery, and who have more than one adverse prognostic factor with comparable LC and toxicity as in the NM. However, further prospective studies are needed to establish its role as an alternative, which is highly unlikely in modern oncology practice, as PM patients are rarely seen in clinics currently with good surgical oncology practices.
Authors
- Anil Kumar Tiwari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5935-6540)
- Rajesh Pasricha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4918-3843)
- Rashmi Sarawagi
- A. Padmanabhan
- Saikat Das (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5862-5957)
- Vipin Kharade
- Raju Prajapati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7735-0282)
- Manish Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2086-2340)
- Neelesh Shrivastava (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5270-6206)
- Balaji Reddy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8904-0707)
Institutions
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal (IN)
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- South Asian Journal of Cancer
- Published
- 2025-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1802626
- Primary Topic
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00