Would you recommend prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) for a teenager with a T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission?
If so, what dose would you recommend?
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Radiation Oncology · St Jude Children's Research Hospital
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No—modern systemic and CNS directed therapy is sufficient to mitigate the historic higher risk of CNS relapse (Vora et al., JCO 2016). While there is still a small risk of cranial relapse with modern systemic therapy, the improved success of response and risk adapted strategies utilizing varying deg...
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