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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
Would you offer adjuvant pelvic RTto a patient with distal sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma, following LAR with pT4a pN1 with + radial margins and no room for further resection?
If there was no further resection and the initial LAR showed a pT4a (visceral peritoneum), pN1 pelvic nodal disease with positive radial margins, would you give a dose higher than 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions?
What factors would lead you to treat a sigmoid colon cancer with adjuvant radiation therapy?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Yes.
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