What is your approach for an inoperable patient with epidural spinal cord compression who has previously received maximum spinal cord dose during a previous course of radiation therapy?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Palliation

How would your recommendation change based on interval from previous radiation?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18642349This paper highlights motor outcome in patients who had reradiation for cord compression with cumulative BED less than 120 With no RT reacted cord injury. if patient is not a candidate for surgical decompression we have retreated with EBRT and more recentl...

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