How would your elective nodal coverage change in a patient with anal cancer metastatic to a high external iliac node?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I agree with the comments above, but I have an additional comment. For some reason as a field, we have pushed the dose to electively treated regions to 45 Gy, although there are no data in the literature to justify that high a dose. I would extend the radiation fields to the celiac axis but would li...
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Radiation Oncologist at Lake Huron Medical Center That's a really good point. How do you do your dos...
Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center I think you are answering @Joel E. Tepper's point....
Radiation Oncologist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill I don't use SIB in this situation.
Radiation Oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center It's also worth noting that when we were designing...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
PA nodes should be designated N2, not M1. Elective coverage is an important consideration. It's a judgement call how far up to cover. I agree with @Krishan R. Jethwa's comments and recommendation if it was just one ext iliac node. However, it is not common to have direct spread to an ext iliac node ...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
If it was a high external iliac node and small bowel positioning was favorable, I’d extend superiorly to the aortic bifurcation to include the common iliac nodes, i.e. 1 lymph node echelon above.
That's a really good point. How do you do your dos...
I think you are answering @Joel E. Tepper's point....
I don't use SIB in this situation.
It's also worth noting that when we were designing...