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Radiation Oncology
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Palliation
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Gastrointestinal Cancers
What dose constraint do you use for the ostomy site when treating a patient with close/adjacent disease?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I treat it the same as the GI tract structure that it is part of, typically either the jejunum or colon.
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