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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
Do you regularly utilize antiemetic or GI prophylaxis when treating abdominal sites with SBRT?
What timing do you recommend? What drug and what dose do you use?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I regularly use antiemetics for patients treated with SBRT for pancreatic cancer and selectively for patients with liver metastases or hepatocellular cancer. I am agnostic about the antiemetic choice, often the patient has either ondansetron or prochloperazine already; and I ask them to ...
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