Do you routinely use IMRT to spare the carotids for early-stage glottic cancer?

Topics: Head and Neck Cancers • Radiation Oncology

What constraints do you use if using IMRT/VMAT?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

Not only can IMRT spare the carotids here, and as I recall Dr. Fuller and others at MDACC were one of the first to officially publish some results on this, but it also reduces acute skin toxicity. It should be dosimetrically apparent that if you go from an opposed lateral field arrangement to a 3-fi...

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Radiation Oncologist at Henry Ford Health System
I do not routinely use IMRT for these cases. I do ...

Radiation Oncologist at Therapuetic Radiology Medical Associates
IMRT allows for well tolerated hypo-fractionation ...

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