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Do you offer adjuvant radiation therapy for sacral chordoma s/p gross total resection with close margins <0.5 cm?

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Radiation Oncology · The Ohio State University - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

Yes to adjuvant RT, but doses of 50-60 Gy have no benefit in chordoma. 70 Gy is required even with R0 margins. See Konieczkowski et al., PMID 32147017 for a full discussion of the literature.

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