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Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 17 (June 10), 2006: pp. 2653-2658
© 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology.
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.05.3850

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REVIEW ARTICLE

Locally Recurrent, Previously Irradiated Head and Neck Cancer: Concurrent Re-Irradiation and Chemotherapy, or Chemotherapy Alone?

Stuart J. Wong, Mitchell Machtay, Yi Li

From the Division of Neoplastic Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Radiation Oncology, Jefferson Medical College/ Bodine Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA; and Harvard School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Address reprint requests to Stuart Wong, MD, Department of Medicine, Division of Neoplastic Diseases, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226; e-mail: swong{at}mcw.edu

Patients with locally recurrent head and neck cancer previously treated with radiation have a poor prognosis. Administration of a second course of radiation to tissues within a previous radiation portal, has been traditionally considered unsafe. Survival rates of highly selected patients treated with concurrent chemotherapy and re-irradiation may be as high as 25% at 2 years—exceeding the outcome of matched historical controls treated with chemotherapy alone (10%). However, many questions exist regarding the use of re-irradiation. Uncertainty exists over the criteria for selecting patients who are most appropriate for treatment with re-irradiation. Even greater concern exists regarding toxicity and functional sequelae associated with the use of re-irradiation. Whether the benefits of re-irradiation on locoregional disease control and survival outweigh its potentially severe and life-threatening adverse effects is not clear. In this review, we will discuss re-irradiation and other treatment options for squamous cell carcinoma patients with previously irradiated, locoregional recurrent or second primary tumors in the head and neck, and describe a recently initiated randomized trial comparing chemotherapy plus re-irradiation with chemotherapy.

Authors' disclosures of potential con- flicts of interest and author contributions are found at the end of this article.


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