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For patients undergoing breast conservation therapy, how do you ensure dose to the skin during treatment planning?

What is an adequate dose to the skin?
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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh
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When possible, we use the lowest energy beam for our tangents (6 MV) to ensure dose to the skin. In larger patients or those with larger separations,we may add in higher energy beams which will reduce skin dose. In light of growing data on partial breast, I down worry about under dosing the skin. Th...

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