How would you treat an elderly, frail patient with a bulky penile SCC with bilateral inguinal nodes?
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.
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Radiation Oncology · University of Utah School of Medicine
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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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