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Questions discussed in this category

Should a patient who requires definitive treatment for prostate cancer as a pre-transplant requirement be strictly required to complete their course prior to transplant/initiation of immunosuppression?
Patient is undergoing RT and has already started on a GnRH antagonist. If so, how long after their last fraction would be an appropriate wait time?
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Can tacrolimus in a transplant patient be used during radiation and concurrent chemoradiation?
Does your practice differ depending on the disease site?
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Would you recommend radiation or chemoradiation in a patient with cholangiocarcinoma s/p surgery and adjuvant treatment with single hepatic metastasis 3 years later?
Patient with extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma s/p Whipple in 2021 with negative margins and no positive nodes followed by adjuvant chemo with subsequen...
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When treating with SBRT and immunotherapy for unresectable HCC, how do you sequence the treatment?
Data are scattered, with some starting concurrent and some starting after SBRT to optimize the priming of the immune system with RT.
1 Answer available
How do you manage oxaliplatin-induced splenomegaly?
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Papers discussed in this category

Radiother Oncol, 2017 May
Analysis of repeated proton beam therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2010-05-20
Oxaliplatin-mediated increase in spleen size as a biomarker for the development of hepatic sinusoidal injury.
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2020 Oct 23
Pretransplant solid organ malignancy and organ transplant candidacy: A consensus expert opinion statement.

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