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When do you refer patients receiving CNS-directed radiotherapy to endocrinology?

Do you have a specific pituitary dose threshold? Do you typically refer prior to or following radiotherapy?
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Radiation Oncology · Mayo Clinic
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In my practice, patients with pituitary tumors are followed by a pituitary endocrinologist. For all the other skull based tumors, I usually don’t refer patients to endocrinology unless a patient is found to have abnormalities with their pituitary function tests. We screen most patients with skull ba...

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