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What treatment volumes and dose do you use for postoperative soft tissue sarcoma of the scalp with negative margins?

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Radiation Oncology · Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Brigham and Women's Hospital

While there is institutional variation in practice, our standard has been to extend extremity/trunk paradigms to the head and neck region, including the scalp. For negative margins for a scalp sarcoma, we typically use margins of 3-3.5 cm for CTV for the first course and then 1.5-2 cm CTV for the co...

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