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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
What treatment do you recommend for patients with Siewert III gastroesophageal junction cancer with periesophageal or mediastinal lymph node involvement beyond what is considered regional for gastric cancer?
Would you recommend chemoradiation therapy or chemotherapy upfront?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
Patients with non-regional lymph node metastaseshave stage IV disease by definition and should be treated with palliative chemotherapy. There is no defined role for chemoradiation in this setting. However, in rare instances (e.g. young patient with excellent functional status and minimal non-regiona...
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