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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
Would you electively treat any lymph node regions for small cell carcinoma of the pancreas?
Would your recommendation change based on the patient's age, performance status, comorbidities, or chemotherapy details?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In general, we model treatment for these patients on the regimens used for SCCa of the lung. The most important thing to establish is that non-operative management is the preferred approach due to the risk of distant metastases. In general, the value of elective nodal treatment is inversely proporti...
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