Dose-effect relationships for the submandibular salivary glands and implications for their sparing by intensity modulated radiotherapy.

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Radiation Oncology · University of Michigan

Whenever nodal shrinkage or weight loss reduces the fit of the mask we make a new mask in same position and re-calculate doses using existing IMRT beam and dose fluences. Tumor dose never reduces based on our experience, and the main issue are doses to organs. Skin dose may increase and it may be wo...