In a patient with rectal adenocarcinoma and involved gluteal lymph nodes, what would your elective lymph node volume include?
Would this change if the cancer was p16+ squamous cell carcinoma?
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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine
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I think the most important issue to address in this case, is how disease accessed the subgluteal space. I had a case like this in a patient with a very deeply invasive disease. During chemoRT, the patient required a diverting ileostomy after they developed a recto-cutaneous fistula due to rapid tumo...
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