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Given POP-RT trial, do you cover elective nodes in high risk prostate cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Ah, to treat nodes or not for prostate cancer -- an area that everyone loves to debate. The recent, fascinating POP-RT trial does shed some important light on this topic, but it's important to keep the trial's patient population in mind when deciding whom to apply it to. Also, the trial is not witho...

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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine

I've been covering lymph nodes in men with high risk prostate cancer since Dr. Perez trained me to do so! I agree, the POP-RT trial and NRG/RTOG-0534 finally asked the question in the correct patient populations.

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

Yes, if the risk is 15% or higher based on the MSKCC nomogram.

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