Balancing Risks and Benefits of Dose and Volume of Radiation Therapy in a Neck Recurrence From Tongue Cancer

Recent data from Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group/American College of Radiology Imaging Network 6685 suggests that fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography offers a sensitive modality for evaluation of lymph node metastasis in the neck, with an overall negative predictive value of 87%, which improved to 94% when a maximum standardized uptake value of 2.5 was used. 1 Lowe V.J. Duan F. Subramaniam R.M. et al....