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What radiation treatment volume and dose would you deliver to an isolated DLBCL relapse in the left eye s/p vitrectomy and intraocular methotrexate?

Prior therapies included R-CHOP x 6 cycles, then undergoing right suboccipital craniotomy and HDMTX/HIDAC/Rituxan x 4 cycles for CNS relapse
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Radiation Oncology · Duke University Medical Center
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This is a case of secondary ocular lymphoma but the management of primary ocular lymphoma may be helpful to consider. For patients with primary ocular lymphoma, a significant number of patients present with bilateral disease at initial diagnosis or will relapse in the contralateral eye after unilateral treatment (Teckie and Yahalom, PMID 23822539). Therefore, when I treat a patient with primary ocular lymphoma with radiation therapy (whether definitive or consolidation), I treat both eyes, even if the disease seems to be isolated to a single globe. This approach not only addresses potential microscopic disease in the contralateral eye but also decreases the risk of complications.

The primary side effect of 30-36 Gy to the eye is dry eye synd...

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