What concurrent dose/fractionation regimen do you prefer when treating large cell neuroendocrine tumor of the lung?
NSCLC-style regimen of 60Gy/30fx daily or SCLC-style regimen of 45Gy/30fxBID?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is an interesting problem. Assuming the pathologist reports this as "large cell neuroendocrine", essentially this is a non-small cell lung carcinoma and we treat as such recognising the significant concern for brain metastasis. We do not do PCI for these patients and a pre-treatment MRI brain i...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I would get the pathology reviewed at a large center to make sure this is not a pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor (typical or atypical) carcinoid. The management would be different, as would imaging, the role of XRT, and selection of technique/volume/dose, etc.
Looks can be deceiving, so can names. Large cell n...
Has there been any increased research in this spac...