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How do you approach thoracic treatment volumes for limited-stage small cell lung cancer?

Under what circumstances would you treat elective nodal regions? Would you consider treating the ipsilateral hilum if it was not PET avid?
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Radiation Oncology · Quillen VA Medical Center
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Usually finding a target in LD-SCLC (limited disease, small cell lung cancer) is not a problem. The early days was very much cookie-cutter including both above clavicle regions, both hila and down to diaphragm. When the Intergoup trial was conceived in the late 80's, there was a need to define volum...

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