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How do you minimize skin toxicity in patients who have a significant amount of breast tissue contacting the couch during prone breast radiotherapy?

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Radiation Oncology · The University of Kansas

In our center, we treat roughly 60% of patients post lumpectomy in the prone position. Larger volume breasts treated in the prone position do touch the treatment table requiring care that this position is reliably reproduced daily. In our experience we do not see additional acute or late toxicity wh...

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