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What is the appropriate monitoring for an incidental low-grade rectal neuroendocrine tumor resected endoscopically with positive margins?

Patient declined further RT/surgery.
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Medical Oncology · Fox Chase Cancer Center
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Do we have information on the size of the lesion? Typically, if it was a positive biopsy and the size of the polyp was <1 cm, we typically rescope and biopsy the scar. It can harbor residual disease (40% incidence), which a deeper resection can cure. And then these patients don't need surveillance. ...

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