Is vocal cord paralysis a complication of thoracic RT?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies

Are you seeing this with increased BED regimens such as concurrent CRT to a dose of 60 Gy in 40 Fx BID?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

There have been a few papers demonstrating this with dose to recurrent laryngeal/vagal nerve. Sources below. Kanaoka et al., PMID 37060336 Shultz et al., PMID 25012837 Pierrard et al., PMID 35872055 Carpenter and Rosenzweig, PMID 25436809 Syed et al., Journal of Radiotherapy i...

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