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How do you approach radiation for a locally advanced prostate cancer with caudal extension into the penis in a patient?

What dose, fractionation and treatment fields would you use?
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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
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When I have encountered this problem, it has either been a very locally advanced adenocarcinoma or small cell. I'll assume for this question that your patient has an adenocarcinoma. Long-term ADT is probably going to be part of the picture, depending on the Gleason score. I consider the extension in...

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