How should young patients with rhabdomyosarcoma be managed in the absence of a clinical trial?
-Are there settings where group II disease does not need RT?
-Are there additional genetic alterations in fusion negative RMS patients that can be used to further risk-adapt therapy?
-Should we uniformly apply RT guidelines regardless of age (what about infants)?
-Should RT doses change in light of the higher failure w/low dose cyclophosphamide or should we use higher doses of cyclo?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida College of Medicine
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The guiding principles of disease control while maintaining form, function, and quality of life drive the decision-making and management for patients with rhabdomyosarcoma.
Regarding patients with paratesticular primary, inguinal orchiectomy with no scrotal invasion but tumor on the surface of the re...
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