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Comment
. 2025 Jul 30.
doi: 10.1007/s00405-025-09595-3. Online ahead of print.

Comment on: "Prognostic Significance of Surgery-to-Postoperative Radiation Therapy Interval (S-PORT) and Total Treatment Package Time (TPT) in HNSCC"

Efsun Somay  1 , Erkan Topkan  2 , Ugur Selek  3
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Comment on: "Prognostic Significance of Surgery-to-Postoperative Radiation Therapy Interval (S-PORT) and Total Treatment Package Time (TPT) in HNSCC"

Efsun Somay et al. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. .
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Keywords: Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy delay; Surgery-to-postoperative radiotherapy interval (S-PORT); Treatment package time (TPT).

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Declarations. Ethical approval: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consent: Not applicable. Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest relevant to this correspondence.

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