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Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers
Is there an age cutoff over which you would not recommend definitive radiation for intermediate risk prostate cancer?
How do performance status and comorbidities affect your recommendation?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In general, I prefer to try to evaluate a patient's physiological age rather than merely use chronological age as an absolute cut off for definitive radiation. Thus, both performance status and co-morbidities factor heavily into my decision whether or not to recommend definitive radiation. In additi...
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