How do you simulate and treat prostate cancer patients on dialysis receiving EBRT?
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Radiation Oncology
This is a great question and agree that the fluid restriction needs to be taken into account. Talking to the patient's nephrologist and cardiologist can be helpful. Having spoken to nephrology and cardiology on patients on dialysis, if the patient does not have heart failure it can be easy to still ...
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Radiation Oncology · VA New Jersey Healthcare System - East Orange campus.
Great question. To me, the issue of caring for PC patients needing curative doses of radiotherapy while on hemo-dialysis, is an interesting clinical challenge that I have faced over the many years, and on reflecting, no one case is similar to the other. It is always a mix and match clinical scenario...