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Do you recommend patients wait to have a total hip sx after salvage radiation for RP?

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Radiation Oncology · AdventHealth Cancer Institute

No, I would not require a waiting period because of the total hip replacement. I standardly use IMRT and we typically avoid incoming beams through artificial joints anyways because of the attenuation. Thus, more likely to use a static multi-beam plan than VMAT if the patient has an artificial hip. U...

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