Palliative care 2017

A case of enhanced skin toxicity due to concomittant cetuximab-radiotherapy

• 56 year old male, squamous-cell carcinoma of the right base of tongue cT2cN2M0 • Suffered from mucosal toxicity during concomittant 5-FU+ mitomycinC-radiation. Needed feeding tube • Changed to cetuximab-radiation • Vesicular and pustular eruptions confined to the irradiated skin