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Can the elective target volume in nasopharyngeal cancer, as specified in RTOG 0615, be reduced if OARs do not meet constraints?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Always protect the brainstem, spinal cord, and chiasm and by that, there will be some compromise of the target. One should not change the target.

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

No. I do not reduce the PTVs. I exceed the OAR dose constraints if necessary.

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Radiation Oncology · Northwestern University

I agree with with @Dr. First Last.

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