Radiation Oncology

CNS Disease

Questions discussed in this category

What would be your approach in a patient who presented with a solitary brain metastasis that resolved after chemo without local therapy?

Would you offer consolidative brain SRS, SRS + consolidative RT to the primary (e.g. lung), consolidative RT to the primary alone?

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Is there a dose to the lens that would be a contraindication for future cataract surgery?

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Is it safe to give large fraction stereotactic irradiation for brain metastases concurrently with VEGF inhibitors?

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Would you recommend adjuvant radiotherapy for recurrent paraganglioma with lymph node involvement treated with salvage neck dissection with no residual disease?

Would the rate of growth, number of nodes involved, size of nodes, ENE etc. affect your decision? What volume and dose would you recommend?

1 Answer available

What features or presentations would prompt you to offer radiotherapy for paraganglioma vs. continued surveillance?

Aside from symptomatic disease, is there a certain growth cutoff or other criteria that would be a trigger for treatment?

1 Answer available

Are there any circumstances in which you would recommend adjuvant chemoradiation for resected olfactory neuroblastoma?

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Papers discussed in this category

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2011 Jun 15

Esthesioneuroblastoma: is there a need for elective neck treatment?

Cancer, 2004-12-01

Sinonasal malignancies with neuroendocrine differentiation: patterns of failure according to histologic phenotype.

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