Would you offer radiotherapy or chemotherapy a patient with cervical cancer s/p radical hysterectomy and now a delayed metastasis to the ovary that was completely resected without tumor spill?
The initial treatment did not include any adjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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I agree with everything said so far. Extremely rare situation. I suppose I would add that the devil is sometimes in the details. Age? How far out from hysterectomy? was the ovary large? Difficult dissection that might suggest disease left in adjacent tissues? Also important to check with the patholo...
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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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Very limited data and no defined way to manage them.
We have treated few patients with concurrent pelvic RT with rationale that pelvic only relapse so potentially curable and not necessarily metastatic followed by pseudo adjuvant chemo with taxol and carbo
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