Making the decision about whether to use a particular tool is not a straightforward one. The popularity of some prognostic prediction tools is impressively large, suggesting both clinicians and patients find them a useful adjunct to current standards of care including endorsement by professional bodies...
Conclusion: Selective avoidance of pharyngeal ir tion after CT, EUA and speculative biopsies is justified but we find the tongue base to be a frequent site of subsequent primary. This site may be better evaluated by MRI I PET imaging. Only one patient died with uncontrolled local disease at ...