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NCCN Flash Updates: NCCN Guidelines Updated for Head and Neck Cancers
NCCN has published updates to the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®), the NCCN Drugs & Biologics Compendium (NCCN Compendium®), and the NCCN Radiation Therapy Compendium™ for Head and Neck Cancers. These NCCN Guidelines® are currently available as Version 2.2023.
Link directly to the Updates section of the NCCN Guidelines: Head and Neck Cancers
ORPH-A (2 of 2)
- Postoperative
- RT or Concurrent Systemic Therapy/RT
- 2nd bullet, 2nd sub-bullet, option added: De-escalation to 50 Gy may be considered in patients with p16 (HPV)-positive oropharynx cancer who have up to 4 positive lymph nodes, N1-N2 disease with ≤1 mm ENE, or cT1-T2 resected to negative or close margins (<3 mm). (category 2B)
- Reference added: Ferris RL, Flamand Y, Weinstein GS, et al. J Clin Oncol 2022;10:138-149.
- RT or Concurrent Systemic Therapy/RT
FOLL-A (1 of 2)
- Follow-Up Recommendations
- 2nd bullet added: AM cortisol, growth hormone (GH), free T4, prolactin, insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2), luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), serum adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and total and bioavailable testosterone levels annually to evaluate panhypopituitarism following RT to the skull base.(category 2B)
- Reference added: VanKoevering KK, Sabetsarvestani K, Sullivan SE, et al. Pituitary dysfunction after radiation for anterior skull base malignancies: Incidence and screening. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base 2020;81:75-81.
ST-1
- Primary Tumor (T)
- T2 modified: Tumor ≤2 cm, with DOI >5 mm
and ≤10 mmor tumor >2 cm and ≤4 cm, with DOI* ≤10 mm
- T2 modified: Tumor ≤2 cm, with DOI >5 mm
MS-1
- The discussion section has been updated to reflect the changes in the algorithm.
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