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Given improved BFS from the phase III FLAME trial, do you recommend focal SIB up to 95 Gy for unfavorable and high risk prostate patients?

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
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As yet, I have not tried to dose escalate to that level using EBRT, preferring to use a brachytherapy boost if I feel patients might require more than I can safely deliver to the whole gland using IMRT. That said, however, I do not think that it would be wrong to try to deliver a focal boost using I...

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