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Is it beneficial to use fiducial markers if you are using daily cone-beam CT for prostate localization?
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Radiation Oncology · UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
The answer to this question will be self-evident if one ever tries to align the prostate to the CBCT at the linac console. It's tough enough to contour the prostate on a planning CT, and the inferior quality of CBCT images only makes it harder to know where the base or apex are. This latter point ca...
Do you recommend PMRT and if so, do you treat the regional nodes, in patients who are cT4N0 (non-inflammatory) treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy who have a pCR at the time of mastectomy?
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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
I would recommend PMRT and treat chest wall and regional node comprehensively. At present those who present with clinical stage III disease like above and have pCR we recommend PMRT. Some of them are suitable for B51 also (stage III and node positive upfront converted to node negative) and we do off...