Would you offer radiation therapy to a patient with sigmoid colon cancer that is medically inoperable?
What dose and volumes of radiation would you use?
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Radiation Oncology · VA New Jersey Healthcare System - East Orange campus.
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Interesting question.
First off, sigmoid cancers are treated as a 'typical' colon cancer; therefore, radiotherapy has a very limited role outside of loco-regional palliation efforts, perhaps.
Second, though the patient is medically inoperable, is the cancer actually in the sigmoid colon, and is it r...
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