Is there a role for elective para-aortic nodal irradiation in endometrial cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gynecologic Cancers • Endometrial Cancer

Is there any indication for ENI in early stage disease or in advanced stages, without pathologic confirmation or PET positivity or CT size criteria?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

We treat in two scenarios:One is for patients who have had surgery done, have positive pelvic nodes on pathology, and PA nodes have not been dissected. For these patients, surgical series report a risk of pa nodal involvement of 40-50% and we treat pelvic and PA region after adjuvant chemotherapy.T...

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Radiation Oncologist at SSM Cancer Center/St Louis CyberKnife
Thank you Dr. @Sushil Beriwal. Would you consider ...

Radiation Oncologist at Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
If it is SNLN ITC in PA node and no dissection, th...

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