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Do you change your definitive therapy approach for a patient with locally advanced central NSCLC with obstruction of a mainstream bronchus and subsequent collapse of the lung?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Louisville

Treating a patient with a collapsed lung with definitive CRT can be difficult. Those patients typically have a higher risk of infection and often have increases in the rates of symptomatic pneumonitis. My first priority is to try to get the lung open before initiating definitive treatment. Often, in...

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