Would you offer definitive radiotherapy for prostate cancer (or another solid organ malignancy) to a patient on maintenance Rituximab for lymphoma?
Would you hold Rituximab during radiation therapy? If so, how long would you recommend hold Rituximab before starting RT?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Good question and a somewhat increasingly common issue in the general sense of patients with overlapping hematologic and prostate malignancies.
For starters, I would think hard about the risk group of this patient and competing risks. If this patient has an aggressive or relapsed lymphoma with favor...
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Radiation Oncology · Corewell Health
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I agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last's answer. I always recommend a thorough consideration of competing risk when considering treating prostate cancer in the setting of concurrent malignancy. Active surveillance will likely be the preferred option for many, but not all, of these patients.
If you have dec...
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