How would you manage a non-surgical poorly differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of unknown primary with a bulky nodal conglomerate causing pain?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers • Thoracic Malignancies • General Radiation Oncology

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

This is a question that could have many reasonable answers. Depending on PS, site, symptoms, and overall onc plan - many standard palliative regimens could be deployed, including more aggressive palliative if this were the only (known) site of disease and more durable local control is intended. Also...

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Radiation Oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center
Aggressive radiation can be helpful in these setti...

Radiation Oncologist at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Agree completely with Dr. @Joshua E. Meyer and Dr....

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