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How would you optimize patient set-up and planning for the post-operative treatment of a distal lower extremity sarcoma?

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Radiation Oncology · Fox Chase Cancer Center

The fundamentals I take into consideration for every sarcoma patient I treat is:

- Every sarcoma patient is very different but I try and keep my overriding paradigm very clear and consistent patient to patient so as to maximize my team's understanding of the patient's care and minimize risks of error...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Good question. I find that simulating extremities are very different than standard chest or pelvis, and will en d up with unique positioning depending on the patient.

So here goes.For distal LE sarcoma simulation: First the common principles- patient comfort and position being reproducible.

Patient...

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