Would you offer radiation therapy for pleural- or peritoneal-based pseudomyxoma peritonei?
If so, how would you approach your radiotherapeutic plan and what dose-fractionation would you utilize?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
There are no published data that clearly support the use of radiation in this disease. In general, the best one could hope to achieve is to slow or arrest the mucin production from the cellular component of the disease. I have tried this with variable success using palliative doses.
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