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Would you offer radiation therapy for pleural- or peritoneal-based pseudomyxoma peritonei?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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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