How do you define your post-operative treatment volumes for a patient with a resected high-grade soft tissue sarcoma of the soft tissues of the upper back?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Sarcoma

For example, in the setting of a lack of pre-operative imaging, what CTV margin(s) would you utilize for the initial and boost phases of treatment?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Thank you for this question. My concern with the lack of pre-surgical imaging is that there is not a good delineation of tumor extent. In scenarios of non-oncologic resection or resection without prior imaging, one should be wary of this. As such, my recommendation would be to be more generous wi...

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