Would you include the entire hardware as part of ISRT for a patient with Stage IE DLBCL of the distal femur treated with upfront prophylactic nailing for impending fracture, who had a CR to chemotherapy?  

In this case, initial tumor was 9.5 cm craniocaudal but hardware spans the entire femur.



Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
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Radiation Oncologist at Duke University Medical Center
Further, an intramedullary nail is almost always i...
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