Radiation Oncology

Leukemia

Questions discussed in this category

In patients with CML on imatinib and newly diagnosed breast cancer now requiring radiation therapy, should we hold imatinib?

The said patient has been on Imatinib for 2.5 years and is In MMR. Last rt-PCR was 0.04.

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When would you consider testicular RT prior to TBI for BMT?

What dose do you recommend?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Cancer, 2004-08-15

The incidence of testicular recurrence in boys with acute leukemia treated with total body and testicular irradiation and stem cell transplantation.

Br. J. Haematol., 2003-11-01

Long-term follow-up of relapsed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Br. J. Haematol., 1998-08-01

Total body irradiation-high-dose cytosine arabinoside and melphalan followed by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from HLA-identical siblings in the treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia after relapse while receiving chemotherapy: a Société Française de Greffe de Moelle study.

Cancer, 1990-11-15

Testicular relapse in children with acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia.

Radiother Oncol, 1990-01-01

Total body irradiation for bone marrow transplantation: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center experience.

BMC Cancer, 2010 Aug 09

In vitro effects of imatinib mesylate on radiosensitivity and chemosensitivity of breast cancer cells.

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