Would you recommend adjuvant radiotherapy in addition to chemotherapy in gastric adenocarcinoma s/p gastrectomy with a distal positive resection margin?
Additional clinical features include grade 3, diffuse type, pT4a, pN2.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is one of the indications for adjuvant chemoRT for gastric cancer.
This patient is pT4a, pN2, R1/2 disease, and grade 3. They probably should have gotten peri-operative FLOT4, in which case the path would be ypT4a, ypN2, R1/2. Either way, the NCCN guidelines support the use of adjuvant radiati...
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Radiation Oncologist at Advocate Radiation Oncology Thank you, what will be your CTV components?
Thank you, what will be your CTV components?