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How do you discuss curative vs palliative treatment intent for patients with favorable risk 1p/19q co-deleted oligodendrogliomas?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Montreal
Although my name is on a publication calling low-grade oligodendroglioma an "incurable disease", this is not a term that I use with patients — even in the case of glioblastoma. We do not have a published 20-year follow-up of RTOG 9802 to see if there is a plateau in PFS. Are we only delaying inevita...