Sentence: Patients with newly diagnosed , locally advanced stage III or IV SCCHN received 4 weekly doses of carboplatin ( area under the curve , 1.5 ) and paclitaxel ( 45 mg/m(2 ) ) concurrently with concomitant boost radiation consisting of 72 grays in 42 fractions over 6 weeks ( every day for 18 days , twice a day for 12 days ) ( grading determined according to the TNM staging system ) .
Drug combination annotation:
[{'class': 'POS', 'spans': ['carboplatin', 'paclitaxel'], 'is_context_needed': True}]