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How would you treat node positive prostate cancer with only a single peri-rectal node on PSMA PET but no other nodal basins involved?

What volumes would you encompass? Anything different than standard nodal basins for high risk prostate cancer?
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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
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I have encountered this situation more commonly in patients who have failed after radical prostatectomy and extensive pelvic lymph node dissection rather than in newly diagnosed patients. However, in the PSMA PET era, I believe we are seeing more patients with perirectal nodal involvement, so I have...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida
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Curative intent radiation and androgen deprivation.

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Radiation Oncology · University of New Mexico School of Medicine
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I believe this situation has two potential approaches: an aggressive approach and a minimalist approach. The aggressive approach would be 6-24 months of androgen deprivation with/without secondary agents (abiraterone, ...alutamide, taxanes) and comprehensive nodal radiation with dose escalation of t...

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
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I would cover the entire mesorectum coplanar with and 2 cm superior and inferior to a PSMA-avid perirectal lymph node. I have seen perirectal lymph nodes not only posterior to the rectum but also lateral and anterior to the rectum on PSMA PET/CT, and I would feel exceedingly worried regarding risks ...

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