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How would you manage an elderly patient with GE junction adenocarcinoma who is not interested in surgery and who has ulcerative colitis (not currently on medication or symptomatic)?

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
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Ulcerative colitis is generally a disease limited to the colon, and is an important distinction from Crohn's disease, which is truly anywhere from mouth to anus in the GI tract. These two diseases are on a spectrum of inflammatory bowel disease and there can be some overlap, but in general I would p...

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