Simultaneous treatment with single-agent chemotherapy and radiation for locally advanced cancer of the head and neck.

Abstract:

:A substantial proportion of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck have extensive locoregional disease at presentation. While extensive surgical procedures may completely eradicate local disease with acceptable morbidity for smaller tumors, in patients with stage III and IV disease, high local relapse rates and relatively short survival times still characterize the course of the majority of such patients. For patients with locally unresectable disease, the combined use of chemotherapy and radiation has resulted in encouraging data both in terms of local control and survival. Combined-modality programs frequently employ platinum coordination complexes, and standard or hyperfractionated radio-therapy toxicity data suggest that the overall tolerance of such programs is acceptable and, more important, long-term follow-up has shown that function can be largely preserved. In this review we illustrate the experience with combined single-agent chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and discuss the methodologic difficulties of clinical trials in this setting. We describe our experience with combined carboplatin and simultaneous conventional radiation in patients with extensive unresectable locoregional disease. Encouraging results and modest toxicity clearly support further testing with this approach, especially in patients with less advanced and bulky disease.

journal_name

Semin Oncol

journal_title

Seminars in oncology

authors

Eisenberger M,Jacobs M

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-08-01 00:00:00

pages

41-6

issue

4 Suppl 11

eissn

0093-7754

issn

1532-8708

pii

0093-7754(92)90100-F

journal_volume

19

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