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How do you manage chest wall pain due to SBRT?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Louisville

Chest wall pain is not an insignificant consequence of thoracic radiotherapy, especially after SBRT. Most of the data describing chest wall pain comes from the SBRT era. Older literature (breast and lung treatment) tends to focus mostly on rib fracture with chest wall pain but rarely differentiates ...

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Radiation Oncology · Harris Methodist Southwest

I agree with the above medications to be tried first.

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