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What is your management strategy for unresectable endometrial cancer due to gross cervical involvement with parametrial extension?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

Our approach is PETCT and MRI for staging. Neoadjuvant chemo RT with external beam and brachy to EQ2 dose of 65-70 Gy folllowed by extrafascial hysterectomy and then adjuvant chemotherapy

below is link to our published data

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25218303

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Radiation Oncology · University of Kentucky

I am not totally sure of the value of chemotherapy with the pre-operative RT, although I can understand that recommendation. If patients are going to have a major operation following pre-op RT, there is also a downside to it. Just like in cervical cancer with parametrial extension, it could well be ...

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