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Do you still routinely offer post-op radiation after bone fixation?
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Radiation Oncology · Lynn Cancer Institute - Baptist Health City, Baptist Health South Florida
This information would not change my practice pattern. I would be interested to know the delineation of the target volume and if all hardware was targeted, as I do not see any radiation details on dose selection/target delineation/etc. Of note, in this series, the median time to initiation of PORT w...
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Radiation Oncology · The Ohio State University - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
I'm a little nervous about the phrasing of the question as it implies that there is an ongoing evolution in practice here. I don't think there is. To emphasize, PORT is--and remains--the standard of care following orthopedic stabilization of bony metastases: Alcorn et al., PMID 38788923
Now, it is fa...