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Would you treat the pelvis electively while treating the prostate in a setting of low volume metastatic prostate cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · Stony Brook University School of Medicine

I think it depends on how low volume the metastatic disease is, and how it was detected. A tiny bone met that was only detected through a PSMA scan in a patient with otherwise negative conventional imaging would likely be different than someone with 5-10 bone mets discovered on a bone scan. We've li...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

I would not treat pelvis electively for M1 disease.

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