How do you approach treatment of a young adult with an intracranial anaplastic ependymoma and a single intradural cervical spine metastasis?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Arizona

A high-grade tumor, such as anaplastic ependymoma, carries a higher risk of CSF seeding down the neuroaxis than lower grades. Secondary spinal drop metastases are considered a serious but relatively rare complication in this disease. Assuming that the metastasis was detected at the time of diagnosis...