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In what setting do you omit adjuvant radiation therapy in a T3N0 rectal cancer?  

The NCCN guidelines categorically recommend adjuvant XRT for a cT1-2N0 rectal adenocarcinoma upstaged to a pT3N0, yet there are multiple institutional series with low recurrence rates with surgery alone in T3N0 patients in whom adjuvant chemoradiation is omitted. This questions presumes high-volume colorectal surgeons performing good TMEs with negative margins.



Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
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Radiation Oncologist at CarolinaEast Radiation Oncology
Dr. @Bruce D. Minsky - to piggyback on this answer...
Radiation Oncologist at Renown Health Institute for Cancer
To piggyback on this, how about pT3N1, proximal re...
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