What cumulative dose would you allow the pharyngeal carotid to receive for a course of reirradiation for a retropharyngeal node?   

How do you adequately balance treating a gross retropharngeal lymph node and limiting dose to the carotid? What would you quote the risk of carotid blowout?



Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice