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Would you consider irradiating the prostate and a positive node noted on PET/auxumin while omitting elective pelvic nodal coverage?
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Radiation Oncology · UC San Diego
I would not generally recommend that strategy, based on current evidence. POP-RT (Murthy et al., PMID 33497252) suggests better biochemical control with elective nodal irradiation in patients with PET-negative prostate cancer. EMPIRE-1 preliminary results presented at ASTRO 2020 also support treatme...