Do you recommend patients wait to have a total hip sx after salvage radiation for RP?
If so, what is timing after salvage radiation that you would recommend?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
No, I would not require a waiting period because of the total hip replacement. I standardly use IMRT and we typically avoid incoming beams through artificial joints anyways because of the attenuation. Thus, more likely to use a static multi-beam plan than VMAT if the patient has an artificial hip. U...
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Radiation Oncologist at Advocate Christ Medical Center I was talking about the opposite case. After salva...
Radiation Oncologist at National Institutes of Health Clinical Center I have always thought that the most likely complic...
I was talking about the opposite case. After salva...
I have always thought that the most likely complic...