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What is the appropriate treatment for a low lying rectal cancer in the setting of prior definitive prostate IMRT?

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Radiation Oncology · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

As is true for most complicated clinical situations, there is not any absolute answer to this question.

First, it does allow me to remind everyone that prostate radiation therapy increases the incidence of subsequent rectal cancer- probably about 2 fold. This shouldn't surprise anyone, but it is some...

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