Aggressive Treatment De-Escalation Feasible in HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer?

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This video highlights 2-year results of a phase II study evaluating aggressive adjuvant chemoradiation dose de-escalation in HPV-positive oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma.

In this video, Daniel J. Ma, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses 2-year results of a phase II study evaluating aggressive adjuvant chemoradiation dose de-escalation in HPV-positive oropharynx squamous cell carcinoma.

Ma presented results of the study (abstract LBA-14) at the 2017 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, held September 24–27 in San Diego.

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