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Would you consider the use of intrathecal chemotherapy in patients with diffuse spinal metastasis due to squamous cell lung cancer?

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Medical Oncology · Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University

My bias is that the response rate for IT chemotherapy for a non-oncogene driven cancer is low enough, that I typically do not consider this. Palliative radiation is reasonable, and in addition, while the question refers specifically to squamous cell lung cancer, this might be the situation in which ...

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