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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
For esophageal cancer treated with primary chemoradiotherapy, with residual disease on 3 months PET, would you repeat a PET at 6 months?
Does esophageal cancer continue to respond up to 6 months on PET, like anal SCC or p16+ oropharyngeal cancers?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
It depends on what the doc and the patient will do with the information. If the patient received primary chemo rads because they were not a surgical candidate initially, they would not be a surgical candidate after treatment. Thus, if there is a recurrence, any subsequent treatment would be palliati...
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