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In patients with newly diagnosed cervical esophageal cancer with limited metastatic disease, do you treat the primary with chemoradiation?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

As systemic therapies for GI cancers have become more effective we are being asked to consider consolidative radiation. In general, radiation in this setting is for palliation only. However, in selected patients with limited M1 disease who have a durable response to systemic chemotherapy and the onl...

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