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Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers • Prostate Cancer • Medical Oncology • Pulmonology • Nephrology • Lung Transplant • Transplant nephrology • Hepatology • Hepatology & Liver Transplantation • Transplant Hepatology
Should a patient who requires definitive treatment for prostate cancer as a pre-transplant requirement be strictly required to complete their course prior to transplant/initiation of immunosuppression?
Patient is undergoing RT and has already started on a GnRH antagonist. If so, how long after their last fraction would be an appropriate wait time?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
To help address this complex question, I would like to call your attention to a review of the topic by Al-Adra et al., PMID 32969590. It covers several types of malignancies, including prostate cancer (Table 4). Treating this patient will require close collaboration with the transplant surgeon, urol...
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