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How would you manage gastrointestinal bleeding after radiation therapy for pancreas cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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In our ablative RT experience (100Gy BED, Reyngold, JAMAOncology, in press), we have had a 2.6% rate of bleeding possibly related to RT in patients not on anticoagulation and 15% in patients are on anticoagulation. Using the point dose constraints (60Gy in 25# and 45Gy in 15#), we have typically see...

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