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How would you approach a patient receiving lung SBRT whose tumor appears to grow partway through their treatment course?

If you would adapt, how so, and would you dose-paint for the remaining fractions?
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Radiation Oncology · UC San Diego School of Medicine
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It kind of depends. Which is always the perfect non-answer answer.

  1. Degree of change. If just a little bit, press forward. If it's a lot (which I have not seen for a 3-5 fraction course), then I would pause and replan.
  2. If you think it is really substantial growth, you can give more dose, so practical...

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