Radiation Oncology   

For radiation oncologists, how do you ameliorate the risk for radiation-related injury to epicardial coronaries during treatment sessions?

The patient is not pacemaker dependent. 

Assuming the patient is symptomatic and/or has compression of ventricles, what field design and dose-fractionation would you use?

If so, how long are they on degarelix before the switch? 

If the pacemaker receives no dose, what dose are the leads allowed to receive and still function? Should interrogation(s) be done weekly?Does dose per...

If a patient had prior breast conserving treatment and now has inflammatory breast disease, would you prophylactical send the patient to a cardiologis...

Recent Japanese guidelines recommend <10MV beams, heart rhythm society and AAPM suggest up to 10MV beams are safe, recommending ≤10MV beams. Giv...

Would you consider using radiotherapy for persistent malignant pericardial effusion?  What dose-fractionation would you use, and what would your ...

Is there an established benefit for this? For instance if your patient has cardiac calcifications on imaging but no history of cardiac disease are the...

How does it vary for patients with a history of hypertension, diabetes, CHF, and coronary artery disease?

Is there a dose constraint you are using for LV-V5?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28095159?dopt=Abstract

Would you treat if the patient is asymptomatic? If you do treat with RT, what dose-fractionation would you use, and what volumes do you target?

How do you best counsel their radiation risks?

In a case-control study by Darby et al in the New England Journal of Medicine, patients treated for breast cancer with radiation were found to have an...