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How do you approach cisplatin dosing for locally advanced head and neck SCC in HPV-positive and HPV-negative patients?

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Medical Oncology · University of Michigan Medical School

Weekly cisplatin 40 mg/m² is not yet considered equivalent to high-dose cisplatin 100 mg/m² every three weeks, and high-dose cisplatin remains the preferred regimen for both HPV-positive and HPV-negative locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. However, weekly cisplatin is an acceptab...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

As Dr. @Dr. First Last points out, the NRG has an active study to address this. 100mg/m2 had been the standard, in part as an old ECOG trial published in abstract only tested a much weaker weekly regimen, i.e., 20 mg/m2, and was negative, while in particular the 2 seminal PORT trials testing cisplat...

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