What dose constraints do you apply to the LAD for lung SBRT?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a great question and one that does not yet have a clear answer from SBRT toxicity outcomes data. Practically, I think we start with contouring the nearby coronaries (which is not such an easy task to broadly implement from a workflow standpoint!) and evaluating the low to moderate isodose li...
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Radiation Oncologist at Beaumont Hospital Very interesting question and responses.
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
ALARA while keeping the R50 & D2cm as compact and symmetric as possible. I keep the PTV overlap with LAD <105%. I never reduce the PTV less than 5 mm, unless the tumor can be tracked during the entire beam-on time with MRgRT (3 mm).
Very interesting question and responses. It would...