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Would you recommend an inguinal node dissection as part of definitive treatment for adenocarcinoma of the anus with suspicious inguinal nodes?

What about bulky nodal disease?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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The only wrong way to approach this is with initial inguinal surgery. I have seen that result on multiple occasions in dermal lymphatic recurrence after standard IMRT because the drainage gets altered. True adenocarcinoma of the anal canal has a poor prognosis due to increased rates of distant failu...

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