When is chemotherapy in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma not indicated?

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
• ² Department of Medical Oncology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
• ³ Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ⁵ Departments of Radiation Oncology, Otolaryngology, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Georgia Research Alliance Cancer Scientist, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ⁷ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France.
• ⁸ Laboratoire de Phonétique et de Phonologie, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
• ⁹ Department of Otolaryngology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
• ¹¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ¹² ENT Clinic, University of Udine, Piazzale S. Maria della Misericordia, 33100, Udine, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁶ ENT Clinic, University of Udine, Piazzale S. Maria della Misericordia, 33100, Udine, Italy. a.ferlito@uniud.it.