What is the optimal treatment for a locally advanced rectal cancer on the anterior wall abutting the prostate in a medically inoperable patient with a remote history of LDR brachytherapy for low risk prostate cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers

If radiation has a role in treatment, what is the recommended dose? Would SpaceOAR placement be helpful?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

I would start with chemotherapy if that is an option and tailor RT dose to some extent based on response. If there is great response even local excision can be evaluated? Rectal and urethral complications are high and I have seen patients developing these complications even with 45 to 50.4 Gy preop ...

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

According to my colleagues who specialized in GU, the LDR monotherapy usually has a prescription dose of 125 Gy (Pd) and 145 Gy (iodine) with a rectal constraint of V100% < 1%. So, there is a relatively high point dose just posterior to the prostate but the overall dose to the entire rectum shoul...

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Radiation Oncologist at Community Care Physicians
Having done a few thousand of LDR brachy, I would ...

Radiation Oncologist at University of Nebraska Medical Center
Thanks, Dr. @Arun Puranik. That is very informativ...

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Thanks, @Sushil Beriwal. I agree that we should try to avoid re-irradiation, especially high dose re-irradiation. Starting with chemotherapy first is also what we do. If local excision is possible, we would do that too. The RT field for re-irradiation is usually small (only cover gross tumor) to de...

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