Would you offer post-operative radiation therapy for a pseudoendocrine sarcoma with a CTNNB mutation of the spine that has been resected with a positive margin?
If so, what dose and treatment fields would you use?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I am not aware of any histology-specific data that would alter the otherwise standard approach to such a situation. If I were seeing such a patient, I would:
Get MRI to confirm no gross residual disease.
Ask the surgeon to re-resect for R0 margins, if at all possible.
Treat to 60 Gy p...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Pseudoendocrine sarcoma is a rare, distinctive tumor of uncertain lineage with a predilection for paravertebral soft tissue in older adults; it is composed of sheets, trabeculae, and nests of epithelioid or ovoid cells with indistinct borders, palely eosinophilic cytoplasm, and highly monomorphic, r...