How would you treat a patient with metastatic cancer with a lesion invading the small bowel causing bleeding and potential obstruction?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Radiation reliably relieves bleeding but typically does not relieve obstruction. It may be worth trying if there is not an impending obstruction. We have plenty of experience in rectal cancer that this is a successful strategy. Since it's located in the small bowel, I would use standard fractionatio...