Palliation

Rectal Cancer

Questions discussed in this category

Would you offer palliative re-irradiation to the sacrum for a patient with a prior history of RT for rectal cancer?

The patient has disease in the S2/S3 region with an anterior soft tissue mass. The patient previously received 50.4 Gy with treatment for rectal canc...

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Do you have a size criteria when treating lung oligometastases with SBRT?

Would you consider treating 3-5mm lesions with SBRT or wait until they are a certain size? I am concerned I will not be able to see them adequately on...

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Papers discussed in this category

Diseases of the colon and rectum, 2014-01

Extended sacropelvic resection for locally recurrent rectal cancer: can it be done safely and with good oncologic outcomes?

Adv Radiat Oncol, 2020 Aug 07

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Reirradiation for Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer: Outcomes and Toxicity.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2001 Jul 15

Extent and kinetics of recovery of occult spinal cord injury.

Advances in radiation oncology, 2016

Efficacy and toxicity of rectal cancer reirradiation using IMRT for patients who have received prior pelvic radiation therapy.

Radiother Oncol, 2014 Nov 26

Reirradiation of locally recurrent rectal cancer: a systematic review.

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