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Is there a role for elective para-aortic nodal irradiation in 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?
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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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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.

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