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Do you recommend elective mediastinal nodal irradiation for an inoperable NSCLC patient with N1 disease who is unable to undergo mediastinal staging?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Rochester

I think that for N1 patients, the risk of developing mediastinal nodal recurrence is high and it is possible that irradiating the mediastinum would reduce this risk, but I don’t think that there are any good studies that sufficiently address this. The patterns of recurrence studies below have grea...

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