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Would you offer definitive RT to a patient with metastatic cervical adenocarcinoma s/p carbo/taxol/avastin with a partial response in the metastatic sites?

ex. in a patient with pulmonary micronodules, inguinal, pelvic, PA nodes
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Do you radiate a patient with metastatic cervical CA with partial response to chemo?

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Radiation Oncology · Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at Henrico Doctors' Hospital
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I have delivered definitive pelvic chemoradiotherapy to a handful of patients who had complete radiographic responses to neoadjuvant TCA. All patients remain disease-free several years later. As for a patient with only a partial response, I believe there is still a good argument to be made for the a...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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I would not, with persistence metastatic disease in the lung. Palliative RT if needed.

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Gynecologic Oncology · Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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I agree with both answers above. I too have given NACT for 3-6 cycles and had some patients with complete radiologic response to distant metastasis. These ladies then got definitive chemoradiation. Most remain disease free for a while with a handful never recurring. If however there is only a partia...

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