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Radiation Oncology • General Radiation Oncology
How do you handle pregnancy testing for women of childbearing age?
Do you routinely ask all women of childbearing potential to have a pregnancy test? If so, do you get a pregnancy test before their CT simulation or their radiation treatment? What age range to you test? Do you have a separate consent form addressing the risks of pregnancy and radiation?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
When ordering a simulation we denote whether a pregancy test is needed. If so, it is performed before the simulation takes place.
Department policy dictates that all women of childbearing age have a serum pregancy test before the simulation CT scan (excecpt those unable to get pregnant,...
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