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Would you boost a positive margin (R1 resection or R2 resection) in a GEJ esophageal carcinoma that completed neoadjuvant chemoradiation?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Theoretically this might be feasible if it is a radial margin and not a mucosal margin because the irradiated mucosal structures would have been resected. There is no evidence-based answer to this question and I'm sure there are people that feel that further radiation is indicated. Not all patients ...

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