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How do you approach lung tumors with vessel encasement, especially in someone with active hemoptysis?

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Radiation Oncology · Mayo Clinic

It's a good question and not one that has a ton of published data to support. If you look at the GYN literature for palliation of vaginal bleeding, hypofractioned RT can be a very useful treatment, suggesting a role in other sites. My impression is always that those are very vascular malignanies and...

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