What volumes do you treat for unresectable tracheobronchial cancer?

Do you electively treat the tracheobronchial tree? Or a certain length of the trachea and bronchus? Does the volume and dose depend on location (tracheal v. bronchus), histology (adenoid cystic v. SCC), previous ablation, and whether chemotherapy can be given?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

There is not a lot of literature on the management of primary tracheal cancer, since it is primarily a surgical disease. In the setting where the patient is inoperable or unresectable, then by first principles since it is an aerodigestive cancer, one can extrapolate the role of radiotherapy and...

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Radiation Oncologist at Yale School of Medicine
Do you treat the tracheobroncial tree to 45Gy and ...

Radiation Oncologist at University of Pennsylvania Health System
I agree with @Gregory M. Videtic. There's not much...

Radiation Oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
I agree with @Gregory M. Videtic and @Jeffrey...

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What volumes do you treat for unresectable tracheobronchial cancer?

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