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Do you offer radiation therapy for locally advanced, node positive rectal adenocarcinoma in patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

The only thing that is clear is that patients with LFS have an increased risk of secondary malignancies secondary to ionizing radiation. The risk is as high or higher than the absolute risk reduction of local tumor recurrence. For this reason, elective radiation is a relative contradiction. In LARC,...

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