Do you crop the mediastinal nodal CTV out of normal lung parenchyma when treating locally advanced NSCLC?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I do routinely crop the mediastinal CTV out of lung parenchyma—while a node may physically expand into the lung tissue (displacing the lung tissue)—there should not be microscopic invasion of the parenchyma. I similarly shave this nodal CTV out of other mediastinal structures such as bon...
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Radiation Oncologist at UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System I'm really curious why some respondents expand the...
Radiation Oncologist at Munson Medical Center I agree, this is literally the definition of a CTV...
I'm really curious why some respondents expand the...
I agree, this is literally the definition of a CTV...