What doses and volumes do you use in treatment of rectal cancer post-operatively?

A surgeon I once worked with used to say "Post-op RT is a disease".

I can't remember the last time I treated someone with rectal ca post-op. When we recommend surgery first without pre-op, it is with the understanding, that will not be don't post-op regardless of the pathology.

However, here are so...

It would be nice if things were that simple, but they aren't always. Although I never plan on post-op RT, sometimes a patient is referred after surgery with very high risk disease (although fortunately, this is now a rare event). Keep in mind that the outcomes data for post-op are not that much wors...

Treat preop. Postop implies an unpleasant surprise.