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What dose and fields would you use to treat a low grade CNS lymphoma that presents as an isolated single mass in the brain?

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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center

De novo presentations of low-grade lymphomas in the brain parenchyma are very, very rare. Suppose a patient had a relatively small, well-localized, low-grade NHL such as FL or MZL in the brain parenchyma, without any evidence of disease elsewhere (negative PET-CT, bone marrow biopsy, etc.). In that ...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Arizona

Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma is an extremely rare neoplasm with an annual incidence of 3 to 4 cases per million people. It represents approximately two percent of all hematologic malignancies. Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma is also a disease of elderly individuals in the seventh and eighth decade of life,...

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