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How would you approach treatment in recurrent, localized rectal mucinous adenocarcinoma?

Would you consider repeating neoadjuvant chemo/RT? Does this, occurring in the context of Lynch Syndrome, change the treatment approach?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Well-differentiated mucinous rectal adenocarcinoma is relatively treatment resistant. In general if there is an in-field local recurrence after prior radiation (ie: is not a marginal miss), then that is very good evidence that it is radiation resistant.

There are many studies now showing that re-irr...

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