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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers
How do you position patients in a prone belly board for reproducibility and optimal small bowel sparing for rectal cancer treatment?
Are bony landmarks used to guide patient placement?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
The bowel either falls forward or it doesn't on the commercially available belly board device. I don't think that you can position patients differently to achieve better displacement of small bowel, but we have never studied this question. The patient's position is very reproducible day to day makin...
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