How do you approach RT coverage of an abdominopelvic lymph node in the oligometastatic or oligorecurrent setting?
What factors influence whether you treat an elective nodal volume vs gross nodal volume (plus a small margin) in the setting of oligometastatic or oligorecurrent disease to an abdominopelvic node?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Speaking specifically about prostate cancer, after treating a number of these with SBRT and having them fail in an adjacent node, me and everyone in our group will tend to treat the entire nodal chain with an SIB to the grossly involved LNs. The only exceptions are in those patients where prior RT p...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Usually, treat chain or region with SIB to GTV for prostate and most gyn cancer except probably ovarian cancer or unless there are contraindications or it is reradiation.
Ling et al., PMID 31150869
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
While I find the responses interesting and the different approaches valid, I don’t think they really answer the question. Obviously, there are a number of variables that would influence the approach (including but not limited to age, performance, PSA trends, initial staging, etc.). I’ve ...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Most data indicate a high rate of failure with node alone RT. We will see if PSMA scans change this. I treat the nodal region with a boost. I don't follow Dr. @Thomas D. Fogel or his anecdote.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Regardless of the cancer type, I only treat visible tumors. That's because there are boundless invisible tumors throughout the body, and the increased risk of treating a few more nodes - just to be safe - seems to defy common sense for a patient with stage IV disease.
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Radiation Oncologist at The Oregon Clinic-Radiation Oncology West At least for prostate nodal oligorecurrence, a lar...
Radiation Oncologist at UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System @Eric, thanks for sharing these references. I actu...
Radiation Oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center I think conceptual underpinning for treating the n...