Gynecologic Oncology

General Rheumatology

Questions discussed in this category

Should special precautions be taken patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome receiving radiation therapy?

Would you have reservations in treating patients with breast, GI, or pelvic malignancies with radiation alone or concurrent chemoradiation?

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How do you manage a patient with cervical cancer who has FDG uptake in bilateral ischial tuberosities with lytic areas on CT correlate, and also has a history suspicious for untreated polymyalgia rheumatica with chronic symptoms in the same anatomic locations?

Cervical cancer FIGO stage IIIC2. Bloodwork shows elevated ESR and CRP.

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When a patient with a preexisting rheumatic disease and on immunotherapy begins to flare, how do you decide if this is an underlying rheumatic disease activity versus an immunotherapy related adverse event?

How do you decide if it may be safe to continue immunotherapy?

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Papers discussed in this category

AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 1996-02

Induction and subsequent rupture of aneurysms of the circle of Willis after radiation therapy in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a plausible hypothesis.

Rheumatology (Sunnyvale, Calif.), 2015 May 07

Polymyalgia Rheumatica and its Association with Cancer.

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2013 Jul 10

Is cancer associated with polymyalgia rheumatica? A cohort study in the General Practice Research Database.

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