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How would you approach a patient with a primary splenic DLBCL who has residual PET avid disease after 6 cycles of R-CHOP?

Would you consider radiation therapy? What dose/fractionation?
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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center
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The treatment of DLBCL arising in the spleen would be very similar to the treatment of DLBCL at most other sites. After a full course of chemoimmunotherapy, if the patient has not achieved a complete response by PET-CT (Deauville 1-3), then the treating physicians need to make a judgment. The primar...

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Radiation Oncology · University Hospital Basel
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Prof. @Dr. First Last outlined treatment choices in a very elegant manner. Thank you for that!

I would like to add that splenectomy could be considered instead of RT if the DLBCL was limited to the spleen at diagnosis.

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