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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
What would you include in the radiation field for a patient with T2 N0 M0 adenocarcinoma of the distal 1/3 of the esophagus?
In a patient who is not a surgical candidate and has a negative PET/CT and EUS, would you include celiac lymph nodes in the radiation field?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I would the celiac axis in this patient. The morbidity of 50.4 Gy is low and the likelihood of occult nodal disease to the upper abdomen is high.
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