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Would you offer salvage radiation for biochemically recurrent prostate cancer with a transplanted pelvic kidney?

Will your recommendation change if there is suspicious/confirmed locally recurrent nodule in the prostate bed?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Utah School of Medicine
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You may want to consider a PSMA PET/CT or Fluciclovine PET/CT if the PSA is >=0.2 at 0.2-0.5 about 30% of scans are positive, at 0.5 and up ~ 50% or more. If you had a target it may guide field design. I would also be curious about life expectancy of this patient, PSA doubling time, and time form or...

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
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I worry about patients on chronic immunosuppressive therapies and the potential for them to have a more aggressive natural history of their disease than one might otherwise anticipate if their immune system were normal. Thus, I would do everything possible to try to design a treatment plan that deli...

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It's difficult to avoid the transplanted ureter's anastomotic site with a great degree of certainty, due to daily variations in bladder filling, but if you can reliably identify it on a day-to-day basis, i would try to keep the dose less than 55-60 Gy. We know that there is a slight increase in the ...

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