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Do you offer chemoradiation for de novo oligometastatic esophageal cancer after chemotherapy with no progression?

Would you offer chemoradiation or radiation therapy to the primary? Would you consider consolidation of oligometastatic sites? What dose would you use?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
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It is unclear if this is useful especially if asymptomatic from the primary/metastatic sites. The question is being assessed by ECOG/ACRIN in an ongoing randomized trial. The schema may be helpful.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04248452

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
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I have offered to two patients, both of whom had non-regional lymph node disease extending down the retroperitoneum making them M1, who had no evidence of progression after a few months of multiagent chemotherapy. I would continue to consider in that clinical scenario, treating as a definitive case ...

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Radiation Oncology · Karmanos Cancer Institute - McLaren Proton Therapy Center
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I have treated in a related scenario before. The patient had a brain-only oligometastasis which we treated with radiosurgery, and then we performed definitive chemo-radiation for the primary esophageal adenocarcinoma. I think the chemo-RT was done after he got induction chemo with FLOT, and he had n...

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