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How would you approach a patient with mediastinal-only recurrence of small cell lung cancer < 6 months after primary surgical resection and adjuvant platinum-etoposide for Stage I disease?

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Medical Oncology · University of Michigan Medical School
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The patient still has limited-stage, potentially curable disease assuming the PET/CT and MRI brain do not show any other sites of cancer outside of the mediastinum. Treatment should consist of chemotherapy plus early concurrent thoracic radiotherapy (TRT). This situation is analogous to mediastinal-...

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