When do you use post chemotherapy XRT in advanced (stage 3 and 4) large B cell lymphoma who obtain CR by PET scan and what dose?

Topics: Hematologic Malignancies • Radiation Oncology • Medical Oncology • Lymphoma • Hematology

Do the potential late effects offset any benefit of mediastinal XRT in a young patient with bulky disease?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

The cornerstone of therapy for advanced DLBCL is chemoimmunotherapy (R-CHOP). Efforts to improve upon this with systemic therapy have been largely unsuccessful (dose-dense chemotherapy, maintenance R, more intensive chemotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy and autologous SCT, etc.). There are increasing...

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Medical Oncologist at Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute
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Answer from: at Academic Institution

In 31 years of practice, I have never seen a case with III-IV presentations and limited disease extent in which all sites of disease can be safely encompassed. Even if they existed, I believe no data exists to support RT in this setting, either as an addition to systemic therapy, or instead of syste...

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