International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 2017-03-15
Six Questions to Ask Before We Shorten Radiation Treatments for Intact Prostate Cancer.
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For those of us just transitioning over to hypofractionation, what are reasonable, but conservative, constraints that you use?
New comment by Radiation Oncologist at START Center for Cancer Care ( December 12, 2021)
It seems that there is some agreement around this area. To be clear, I favor doing the CT sim and treatments exactly the same way no matter what the technique is.
So in...
New comment by Radiation Oncologist at Rush University Medical Center ( September 25, 2019)
The constraints listed by Dr. Chowdhary are great, but what about patients with small bowel in the PTV? In my practice I give PO contrast for prostate sims (intact and p...
U of Alabama paper states no max dose constraints used but they try to keep V60 < 10% or 10 cc (these constraints appear to be difficult to achieve...
New answer by Radiation Oncologist at Duke University School of Medicine (February 28, 2020)
Of course the answer is different depending on which hypofractionated regimen that you use.If you are using the CHHiP regimen (60 Gy in 20 fractions) the trial investigators h...