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What treatment recommendations for a low or intermediate risk prostate cancer do you consider when treating patients with medical commodities such as ankylosing spondylitis and ulcerative colitis?

What are the late effect risks in a patient status post a total colectomy if treated with IMRT for prostate cancer?
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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine
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I do not think either of these would be a contraindication for radiotherapy. I have some experience with patients with ulcerative colitis, but not with ankylosing spondylitis. If there is any concern, either HDR or LDR brachytherapy are the most attractive options. The volumes for low and intermedia...

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Radiation Oncology · Bassett Healthcare
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These are interesting case based questions. I think you have to go back to the basics and see what are the organs at risk, their tissue tolerance, and balance all this with the performance status of the patient and the reason to treat the disease.

If your patient with ulcerative colitis underwent to...

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