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How do you manage high risk prostate cancer patients with well controlled Crohn's disease?

Do you offer RT if the patient is well controlled on medications?
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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
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My first choice would be to manage them without the use of radiation therapy. A minority of patients with high risk disease are curable with surgery, and the population with inflammatory bowel disease is one that I tend to steer away from radiation therapy. Despite the adverse prognostic features of...

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Radiation Oncology · Bassett Healthcare
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How would you change your answers if you used the new SpaceOAR material by Augmentix?

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