Would you offer radiation therapy to a patient with sigmoid colon cancer that is medically inoperable?
What dose and volumes of radiation would you use?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Interesting question.
First off, sigmoid cancers are treated as a 'typical' colon cancer; therefore, radiotherapy has a very limited role outside of loco-regional palliation efforts, perhaps.
Second, though the patient is medically inoperable, is the cancer actually in the sigmoid colon, and is it...