How would you treat an elderly, frail patient with a bulky penile SCC with bilateral inguinal nodes?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers

If you would offer radiation, what dose do you recommend? How do you simulate and treat the patient? The patient is not a surgical or chemo candidate.

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

These are challenging cases. Conventional wisdom is that patients with bulky nodes are considered rarely curable without surgery: However, this has not been my experience. Nevertheless, to achieve a durable outcome, including cure, our practice has been to use combined chemotherapy and radiation the...

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Radiation Oncologist at Sequoia Radiation Oncology Services, Inc
Thank you for your insight! How do you simulate th...

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