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How would you approach an atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) in an adult patient?

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Radiation Oncology · UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center

For adults, it depends on the metastatic disease status regarding dose to the craniospinal axis. A lot of the kids diagnosed with this tumor are under age three, so up front aggressive chemotherapy is usually their treatment paradigm until they are old enough to get radiation. For adults, though, we...

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