How do you sequence chemotherapy with radiotherapy for advanced endometrial cancer?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Unfortunately, we don’t even know for sure if we need RT for stage III disease.GOG 258 showed early concurrent chemo RT is no better than chemotherapy alone (delaying chemo increased distant mets, which probably negated locoregional control benefit of RT). For this reason, chemotherapy has bec...
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Radiation Oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre I agree with your comments @Sushil Beriwal. The pr...
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Radiation Oncologist at Texas Oncology-Arlington Cancer Center North If giving RT after 6 cycles of chemo, do you still...
Radiation Oncologist at Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network No.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is an excellent question that speaks to the numerous recent developments, and ongoing controversies, regarding the ideal adjuvant approach to stage III endometrial cancer.One big takeaway is that stage III EC is an extremely heterogeneous population, consisting of patients with wildly different...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Typically treat with six cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy followed by radiation. Can consider the sandwich technique supported by data from Duke. I think GOG 258 is thought-provoking and can support chemotherapy alone. I would keep in mind that this trial had a high percentage of lymph node-positive ...
I agree with your comments @Sushil Beriwal. The pr...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32749941/ Lin...
If giving RT after 6 cycles of chemo, do you still...
No.