When treating locally advanced/borderline resectable pancreatic cancer with SBRT, what are the typical duodenal dose constraints you utilize?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
5-fraction pancreatic SBRT has been reported using a variety of dose constraints for duodenum, remainder of the small bowel, and stomach. The most common is a maximum dose in the ~30 Gy range. In our series from Moffitt we reported low toxicity using V1 cc < 35 Gy and V5 cc < 30 Gy although in...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Colorado School of Medicine Thanks @Michael D. Chuong. I agree with your comme...
Radiation Oncologist at Kaiser Permanente Regarding dose constraints, could you clarify whet...
Radiation Oncologist at Florida International University - Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine I always define stomach, duodenum, small bowel, an...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This question comes up often. Herman JM et al reported their prospective multi-center (Hopkins, Stanford and Memorial) phase II trial investigating the safety of neoadjuvant gemcitabine followed by fractionated SBRT in patients with locally advanced unresectable pancreatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma...
Thanks @Michael D. Chuong. I agree with your comme...
Regarding dose constraints, could you clarify whet...
I always define stomach, duodenum, small bowel, an...