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Radiation Oncology • Palliation
For bone metastases requiring surgical stabilization, what time interval from the date of surgery do you use for post-op radiation?
What is the maximum time that can be used (given the complexities with patient being in the hospital or needing rehab)?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Generally, the surgical stabilization minimizes the capability of short-term catastrophe in (like path fracture), what I presume to be a long bone that has undergone surgical stabilization. I'd probably want to give a few days just to maximize local wound healing but starting sometime, maybe 1-2 wee...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
We generally treat the same day as surgery or if not, within 24 hours.