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Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies • Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy • Non-small cell lung cancer
Does proximity to or involvement of the aorta effect the dose and fractionation you use for an early stage NSCLC?
For example, a NSCLC of the LLL abutting and potentially involving the adventitia of the descending aorta?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
In the primary treatment setting I think it's very safe as long as you adhere to the constraints used in RTOG 0813 (105% to 0.03cc) since this would be considered a central tumor. I have never seen a complication from treating the aorta using those constraints in the upfront setting.
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