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Do you include subcarinal, AP window, and mediastinal paraaortic nodes in your CTV for esophageal cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Unfortunately, this is essentially a data free zone. There are certainly no clinical trials to answer the question - it is hard enough to prove the value of radiation therapy without going into second order effects such as on the exact size of the RT field. I personally do not extend the fields prox...

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