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What margin do you give around the internal mammary vessels when treating IMN nodes for breast cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · New York University School of Medicine

I typically use 8mm-1 cm around the vessels, excluding sternum and lung. I contour the vessels in the 1st-3rd intercostal spaces. MA20 used 1 cm around the vessels with coverage by the 80% IDL.

The only exception to this approach is if patients had radiographically enlarged internal mammary nodes. I...

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