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Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later
To evaluate the current practice and change in practice concerning screening for distant metastases in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients, we performed a survey with the same questionnaire as 10 years ago among the eight centers of the Dutch Head and Neck Society treating head and neck c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26769038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-016-3897-5 |
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author | Senft, Asaf Hoekstra, Otto S. Castelijns, Jonas A. Leemans, C. René de Bree, Remco |
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description | To evaluate the current practice and change in practice concerning screening for distant metastases in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients, we performed a survey with the same questionnaire as 10 years ago among the eight centers of the Dutch Head and Neck Society treating head and neck cancer in The Netherlands. Factors related to extensive lymph node metastases are the most frequent indication for screening for distant metastases. The combinations of whole body PET-CT and contrast-enhanced chest CT are nowadays the diagnostic techniques for routinely screening for distant metastases. Screening for distant metastases is performed more frequently than 10 years ago. Although the sensitivity of the diagnostic pathway needs to be improved, most centers are satisfied with the current diagnostic pathway. A reduction of variation in indications and diagnostic techniques used for screening for distant metastases is observed during the last 10 years. In future guidelines patients’ selection and diagnostic tests need to be specified in more detail. |
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spelling | pubmed-50148912016-09-19 Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later Senft, Asaf Hoekstra, Otto S. Castelijns, Jonas A. Leemans, C. René de Bree, Remco Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Head and Neck To evaluate the current practice and change in practice concerning screening for distant metastases in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients, we performed a survey with the same questionnaire as 10 years ago among the eight centers of the Dutch Head and Neck Society treating head and neck cancer in The Netherlands. Factors related to extensive lymph node metastases are the most frequent indication for screening for distant metastases. The combinations of whole body PET-CT and contrast-enhanced chest CT are nowadays the diagnostic techniques for routinely screening for distant metastases. Screening for distant metastases is performed more frequently than 10 years ago. Although the sensitivity of the diagnostic pathway needs to be improved, most centers are satisfied with the current diagnostic pathway. A reduction of variation in indications and diagnostic techniques used for screening for distant metastases is observed during the last 10 years. In future guidelines patients’ selection and diagnostic tests need to be specified in more detail. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-01-14 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5014891/ /pubmed/26769038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-016-3897-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Head and Neck Senft, Asaf Hoekstra, Otto S. Castelijns, Jonas A. Leemans, C. René de Bree, Remco Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
title | Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
title_full | Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
title_fullStr | Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
title_full_unstemmed | Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
title_short | Pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the Dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
title_sort | pretreatment screening for distant metastases in the dutch head and neck centers: 10 years later |
topic | Head and Neck |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26769038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-016-3897-5 |
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