Would you offer radiation therapy to a NF-1 patient with a painful and unresectable neurofibroma of the head and neck?
If so, what dose would you use? When would you utilize radiation?
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Radiation Oncology · St Jude Children's Research Hospital
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I assume this is a plexiform neurofibroma and its nerve related pain along the upper T or C-spine nerve roots?
I would avoid radiotherapy if possible and instead work with your oncologist to evaluate whether the patient is a candidate for something like selumetinib if the lesion is progressive as the...
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