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Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers
How would you approach treatment in a patient with well controlled ulcerative colitis planned for salvage RT?
Do you treat the pelvis or omit? Do you have more tighter constraints for rectum or bowel?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a great question. In patients with well controlled UC or any inflammatory bowel disease, I typically will have no concerns treating them, which is supported by recent data/manuscripts.First and foremost, I have a discussion with the patient's GI doctor to make sure any medications or intrica...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Agree that the biological therapies for IBD have definitely changed the response of irradiated bowel compared with the previous era where Azulfadine and corticosteroids were the primary treatment modalities. I was informed by the review of David Hussey and his group in the 1990s (Ross et al., PMID 8...