What lung constraints do you use for early stage breast hypofractionation?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
The rationale for monitoring/constraining the ipsilateral lung is to avoid symptomatic radiation pneumonitis. That being said, I don't know if I have ever seen it in a patient where we are not treating nodes.Our official scorecard for whole breast conventional fractionation (40-42.56 Gy/15-16 fx) st...
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Radiation Oncologist at OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center-Alton You are correct, back in the 2D era, you would sho...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
We have chosen to follow the constraints from RTOG 10-05 (Accelerated WBRT w/ concurrent boost vs Standard WBRT w/ sequential boost).
VGy16 15% (acceptable deviation 20%); V8Gy 35%, V4Gy 50% for breast alone.
30%; 45%; 60% for comprehensive.
And, like Dr. @Simul Parikh, have had very few ca...
You are correct, back in the 2D era, you would sho...