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How would you manage a patient with a solitary plasmacytoma with a partial response to RT?

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Medical Oncology · Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

A solitary osseous plasmacytoma can be higher or lower risk than an extra medullary plasmacytoma; for instance, a tonsillar plasmacytoma is different than one in lung parenchyma.

The largest study I know about evaluating solitary plasmacytoma of the bone involved 206 patients without evidence of mye...

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Medical Oncology · Providence Western Washington Onc, Inc

If there was no elevation to begin with a serum light chain ratio or serum in the globulins, I would observe, but if there was an initial elevation of these with appearance of the plasmacytoma and partial reduction of those values along with partial shrinkage of the lesion, I would consider a surgic...

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