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Would you offer post-operative radiation therapy for a pseudoendocrine sarcoma with a CTNNB mutation of the spine that has been resected with a positive margin?

If so, what dose and treatment fields would you use?
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Radiation Oncology · The Ohio State University - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
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I am not aware of any histology-specific data that would alter the otherwise standard approach to such a situation. If I were seeing such a patient, I would:

  1. Get MRI to confirm no gross residual disease.
  2. Ask the surgeon to re-resect for R0 margins, if at all possible.
  3. Treat to 60 Gy postop if so, ...

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Radiation Oncology · Florida Cancer Affiliates / The US Oncology Network
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Pseudoendocrine sarcoma is a rare, distinctive tumor of uncertain lineage with a predilection for paravertebral soft tissue in older adults; it is composed of sheets, trabeculae, and nests of epithelioid or ovoid cells with indistinct borders, palely eosinophilic cytoplasm, and highly monomorphic, r...

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