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If you saw a medically inoperable patient for chemoRT for muscle-invasive bladder cancer who had a congenital recto-urethral fistula, would you deliberately exclude the prostate/prostatic urethra from the target volume?

If you would include it, what would you anticipate in regards to the impact on this fistula?
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Radiation Oncology · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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First, I would want to know about this fistula and why it couldn't be addressed when the patient was a child (what other medical factors might be involved?). Also, the exact location of the fistula would help inform a response to this question. Finally, the nature and location of the bladder tumor i...

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