How do you approach thoracic treatment volumes for limited-stage small cell lung cancer?

Under what circumstances would you treat elective nodal regions? Would you consider treating the ipsilateral hilum if it was not PET avid?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

Usually finding a target in LD-SCLC (limited disease, small cell lung cancer) is not a problem. The early days was very much cookie-cutter including both above clavicle regions, both hila and down to diaphragm. When the Intergoup trial was conceived in the late 80's, there was a nee...

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Radiation Oncologist at Cleveland Clinic
Absolutely agree with the above answer. While...

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For a patient with positive mediastinal LN but PET...

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