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How do you contour proximal SV for definitive prostate EBRT?

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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine

Few people may know where the idea of the proximal seminal vesicle CTV came from. After the RTOG had completed it's 9406 phase II dose-escalation study with 3DCRT, we began the 0126 phase III trial of 70.2Gy vs 79.2Gy with 3DCRT. For the intermediate-risk patients, the predecessor 9406 study had a c...

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Radiation Oncology · Case Western Reserve University/ University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center

It is a case by case basis, and always a risk/benefit ratio. I don't treat low-risk disease, and I put a decent number of favorable intermediate on AS based on MRI and genomics. So really, the people I treat I believe had significant enough disease that warrants curative therapy.

What the Kestin et a...

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Radiation Oncology · UC San Diego

Alright, answering my own question to create a record for users of this forum.

I conducted a super-unscientific poll on Twitter: see here. 77 responses.

  • Only 1 cm, any direction: 43%.
  • All SV on slice, 1 cm sup: 57%.

See the comments and re-tweets for various opinions. There appears to be a fair am...

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