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Radiation Oncology • Sarcoma
How do you manage sarcomas of the hand or the feet?
Would you treat these sites to definitive or post-operative doses? If not, is there a dose constraint you use at these sites? Do you use tighter margins at these sites? And, would you manage the ventral surfaces of the hands/feet different from the dorsal or lateral side?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a very difficult question. Please see my answer to the previous Mednet question: How would you optimize patient set-up and planning for the post-operative treatment of a distal lower extremity sarcoma? for general information on how I approach set-up for these patients.Hand and feet sarcomas...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
In addition to the excellent reference above from MDACC, I also (selfishly of course) point you to this review of patients from UF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25036470We also looked into longer-term functional scores after combined therapy.