Which chemotherapy regimen do you prefer for concurrent treatment with radiation therapy for anal squamous cell carcinoma?
5FU/mitomycin C or 5FU/cisplatin? Is there any benefit of cisplatin in terms of skin toxicity?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
When you have a highly successful treatment such as radiation with concurrent mitomycin and 5-FU in a rare disease such as epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal, it is extremely difficult to improve outcomes by improving the chemotherapeutic/radiosensitizing effect. The recurrence rate is so low n...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
We have routinely substituted oral capecitabine for fluorouracil for our most recent ~60 SCC anal canal patients. Capecitabine 825 mg/m2 BID daily on radiation days. MMC 10 mg/m2 on days 1 and 29. (some med oncs do a single MMC dose of 12 mg/m2 on day 1). No port. No pump. Good patient complian...