Predictors of toxicity to concurrent chemoradiation (CRT) in patients (pts) with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC)

16540 Background: A number of studies have evaluated the impact of prognostic factors on survival but very few have studied their role as determinants of toxicity, especially outside of the context of clinical trials. We set out to identify patient characteristics that are likely to predict toxicity to chemotherapy (CT) with daily cisplatin 6mg/m2 and radiation therapy (RT) in pts with locally advanced HNSCC. Methods: …