Do you look at or constrain V10 lung dose for your IMRT esophagus patients?
RTOG 1010 has Lungs-PTV constraint of V10 < or = 40% (per protocol) to 50% (variation acceptable), but V10 is not often used in other thoracic malignancies.
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Radiation Oncology · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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I have a few general comments about dose constraints that applies not just to this question, but to normal tissue constraints generally.
The first is to keep in mind that, to a great extent, the various lung constraint parameters are correlated. Therefore, in many situations, it might not matter whi...
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