What dose constraint, if any, do you use for the ureters during prostate radiation?
Do you change your treatment volumes, particularly when treating the seminal vesicles, to avoid the ureters?
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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine
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I have never changed the treatment volumes or applied a specific dose constraint. The ureters can sometimes be hard to see on CT, but contrast helps and this is something we don’t routinely do. The vas deferens is another structure we tend to ignore too. I think this will be an increasingly importan...
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