Proton Radiotherapy for Recurrent or Metastatic Head and Neck Cancers with Palliative Quad Shot
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE: Some patients with previously treated, unresectable, recurrent or metastatic head and neck malignancies are not amenable to curative-intent treatment. Here, we investigated the quad-shot (RTOG 8502) regimen of hypofractionated proton radiotherapy (RT) in that patient population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From 2013 to 2015, 26 patients with recurrent or metastatic cancers were treated with palliative proton RT to the head and neck with quad shot (3.7 Gy twice daily for 2 days). Patient characteristics and survival data were reviewed. RESULTS: Seventeen (65%) patients received ≥ 3 quad-shot cycles and 23 (88%) had prior head and neck RT. Overall palliative response was 73% (n = 19). The most common presenting symptom was pain (50%; n = 13), which improved in 85% (n = 22) of all patients. The overall grade-1 acute-toxicity rate was 58% (n = 15), and no acute grade 3 to 5 toxicities were observed. CONCLUSIONS: The proton quad-shot regimen demonstrates favorable palliative response and toxicity profile, even in patients that received prior RT.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".