Do you use bite block during radiation treatment for base of tongue (BOT) cancer?
How does your setup differ from oral cavity cases?
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Would you prefer an oral stent for your base of tongue tumor or 2-3mm PTV margin expansion?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Yes, we use intra-oral immobilization for any tongue (or BOT) involvement.
Japanese data suggest improvements in immobilization lead to clinically meaningful PTV implications (Doi et al., PMID 28515675) in head and neck cancers. Our in-house data suggests not having a stent on a BOT target requires a...
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