Medical Oncology

Cervical Cancer   

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Would you consider this stage IVA (spread to adjacent organ) or IVB (spread to distant organ)? For instance, would the presence of direct lumbar verte...

The 4 cm cuff recurrence occurred 3 years after definitive treatment with hysterectomy and vaginal cuff brachytherapy to 21 Gy. The recurrence had a c...

The trial showed an overall survival benefit of 8% at 5 years with induction chemotherapy (80% vs 72%) utilizing at least 5 cycles of carboplatin-pacl...

Consider treatment of stage IVB cervical cancer with systemic therapy and local pelvic radiation therapy as in Perkins et al., PMID 31810653.

Considering this is stage IV disease, do your recommendations for definitive or adjuvant treatment (after surgery) change?

MRI pelvis shows a 3.5 cm primary that appears infiltrative and without clear parametrial extension on MRI. Staging PET negative.  Is there any ...

When would you use 5-fluorouracil instead of, or in addition to, cisplatin during chemoradiation? When, if ever, would you offer adjuvant hysterectomy...

Do you include pembrolizumab with platinum-taxane + bevacizumab or reserve it as a second line option?

Do you try to keep Hb> 10 or 12? Or somewhere in between? 

Previously received pelvic EBRT and intracavitary brachytherapy. IORT was administered to the node-positive side wall at the time of exenteration.

Initially treated with definitive chemoRT but recurred with distant mets. Completed 6 cycles carb/tax/bev with minimal toxicity. Excellent performance...

Recurrence was 2cm and PET confirmed local. Excision with positive margins. Current plan for salvage whole pelvic RT and vaginal cuff brachytherapy +/...

This has been a common practice in the community. Is there a benefit for certain patients?

Would you be more or less likely to use a cisplatin-containing regimen if a patient had previously responded to chemoradiation with concurrent cisplat...

Should this be done at the time of recurrence or after failure of 1st line therapy for recurrence?


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