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Breast Cancer • Radiation Oncology
If a patient has a mediport within the radiation field, will you insist the patient have it removed prior to radiation?
If not, are there certain dose constraints one considers?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I do not move ports from the chest wall normally out of the way during usual photon radiation fields even if they are on the same side as a breast or chest wall I am treating. I have treated them in a tangent or a supraclavicular photon field without any apparent problems. But it could c...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
We have been treating routinely with mediport on same side as RT field without any clinical issue
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I've never seen a problem.