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For patients with locally advanced rectal cancer who desire organ preservation and can tolerate fluoropyrimidine but not oxaliplatin, what is the appropriate treatment approach?

What is the preferred palliative regimen for elderly patients with rectal cancer who elect to forego surgery?

Is concurrent chemoradiation reasonable or excessive in a patient with life expectancy <5 yrs? Should the standard be 5 Gy x 5, and will this provi...

What is the recommended follow-up/surveillance schedule following organ preservation treatment approach for cT1-2N0 rectal cancer?

Taking into account follow up from NEO, OPERA and other organ preservation trials?

Are there select patients with rectal cancer where radiation field size reduction might be feasible?

Is there a correlation between rectal cancer stage and dose response to radiotherapy?

Dose-escalation RT trials have had mixed results in the past for advanced rectal cancer, while in the early rectal stage there is a tendency towards a...

For patients with cT1-T3 cN0 cM0 mid/low rectal cancer seeking organ preservation, what treatment approach do you recommend?

How do you weigh definitive chemoRT vs minimally invasive surgical approach with neoadjuvant chemo followed by transanal excision, in light of results...

How does the potential for a patient to accept or forego adjuvant tamoxifen factor into your recommendations on adjuvant RT for DCIS?

Are there specific patient populations in which you may feel comfortable with a patient selecting only one adjuvant therapy approach (tamoxifen vs RT)...

How are you using predictive tests such as DCISionRT (PreludeDx) or OncotypeDX DCIS in the management of DCIS?

What advantages/disadvantages are there between assays or over traditional clinical pathologic factors? What other concerns do you have?For additional...

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How do you sequence radiation and capecitabine in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant capecitabine for residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?

It is not clear from CREATE-X whether radiation was before or after capecitabine. Is there a preferred approach?

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How do you approach the decision to boost patients diagnosed with DCIS?

What factors do you consider?Is your thought process at all different from your approach to boost with IDC? Do you apply TROG 7.01 data (age <...

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What resection margins are required for DCIS with a component of invasive disease?

What resection margins are required for pure DCIS with adjuvant RT? What resection margins are required for pure DCIS without RT? For additi...

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Are CHEK2 mutations a contraindication for breast conservation therapy with lumpectomy + RT?

Should patients with moderate penetrance pathogenic variants be managed similar to BRCA patients and consider risk reducing contralateral mastectomy?&...

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Would you omit RNI in a patient with locally advanced TNBC with N1 disease who has an ALND and is found to have a pCR in the nodes?

Do you recommend IM biopsy in the initial staging of breast cancer patients with suspicious IM nodes on imaging?

Is pre-treatment nodal ultrasound evaluation necessary if a patient undergoes upfront PET/CT for staging?

For locally advanced breast cancer, to what dose do you treat undissected clinically positive level III axilla, SCV or IM nodes?

We sometimes find highly suspicious LNs by CT, PET or MRI in the undissected regional lymphatics, and surgeons may not be willing to perform another o...

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How long after achieving a CR would you consider stopping pembrolizumab in metastatic melanoma?

Is there any role for ctDNA testing after surgery or SBRT for Stage IB NSCLC to determine the need for adjuvant chemotherapy?