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Would you offer radiation therapy to a patient with sigmoid colon cancer that is medically inoperable?

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Radiation Oncology · VA New Jersey Healthcare System - East Orange campus.

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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