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What concurrent dose/fractionation regimen do you prefer when treating large cell neuroendocrine tumor of the lung?

NSCLC-style regimen of 60Gy/30fx daily or SCLC-style regimen of 45Gy/30fxBID?
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Radiation Oncology · University Of Kentucky Hospital
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This is an interesting problem. Assuming the pathologist reports this as "large cell neuroendocrine", essentially this is a non-small cell lung carcinoma and we treat as such recognising the significant concern for brain metastasis. We do not do PCI for these patients and a pre-treatment MRI brain i...

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Radiation Oncology · LJA
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I would get the pathology reviewed at a large center to make sure this is not a pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor (typical or atypical) carcinoid. The management would be different, as would imaging, the role of XRT, and selection of technique/volume/dose, etc.

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