Would you recommend adjuvant radiation for a large dedifferentiated anterior abdominal wall liposarcoma?
Would you offer radiation to the large field due to focally positive well-differentiated disease, if it is very large in size (17 cm dedifferentiated disease)? Or defer XRT? There is a good amount of small bowel near the resection bed.
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Radiation Oncology · University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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When I have the opportunity to evaluate such a patient before treatment begins, I strongly favor pre-operative radiation with conventional fractionation and margins.
If meeting the patient after surgery, it depends a great deal on how the closure was accomplished: reconstructed abdominal wall, prima...
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