How would you treat a locally recurrent NSCLC abutting the heart that was previously treated with conventional chemoRT?
If you treat with SBRT, how would you constrain the heart given the significant prior involvement of the pericardium in this area in the PTV, assuming the new PTV abuts the heart (one year later)?
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Radiation Oncology · Yale School of Medicine
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Like any reirradiation case, there is no one correct answer regarding this difficult scenario. The amount of time elapsed since prior RT, how much dose was received by the heart from the conventional treatment, cardiac/pulmonary comorbidities, life expectancy, performance status, other medical/surgi...
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