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How would you treat a p16+ small cell neuroendocine tumor of the anal canal with or without metastatic inguinal lymph node metastasis?

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Radiation Oncology · NYC Health + Hospitals

Interesting case. Small cell cancers are generally considered radiosensitive, but so is anal squamous cell carcinoma. I personally would do the same RT field and dose. The real conundrum for me is the concurrent chemotherapy regimen - do you keep 5FU/MMC or do you use cisplatin/etoposide? I think a ...

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

I agree. The extremely high DM risk should drive management. Extrapulmonary small cell neuroendocrine cancers all behave like the pulmonary ones. Although it is a rare histology and there is no definitive data, initial cis/etoposide followed by concurrent cis/etoposide IMRT with standard anal cancer...

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