Penn Medicine · Otorhinolaryngology
Weekly teaching from the Penn Head & Neck Surgical Oncology group. Every email we send, the papers behind it, and the reference material that goes with them, in one place.
We meet Wednesday mornings @ 7AM. Donuts and coffee for those who can join in person.
This week and recently
Staging as a survival prediction tool from ICON-S to AJCC 8th edition, why cisplatin is still the standard, the NRG HN002 and HN005 de-escalation trials, and where de-escalation goes next.
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How HPV came to be recognised as a cause of head and neck cancer, why surgical and chemoradiation cohorts agree on its better prognosis, why p16 and HPV testing are not quite the same thing, and why vaccination works but slowly.
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Choosing a bone flap among the fibula, scapula tip and smaller options, how accurate virtual surgical planning really is, perioperative management, and osteoradionecrosis.
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August through June
Topics follow the AHNS standardized fellowship curriculum. Each one collects the emails written about it.
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