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

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Radiation Oncology · Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center

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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