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Do you boost residual lung disease after chemotherapy after whole lung irradiation for patients with Ewings, Rhabdomyosarcoma or Wilms?

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Radiation Oncology · St Jude Children's Research Hospital

A patient who did not undergone a resection for the gross residual pulmonary metastatic disease in either Ewings or RMS may receive a boost at the completion of the whole lung portion of their radiotherapy. It is infrequent that this occurs at our institution as our bias is to resect the gross resid...

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