What is your planning approach for SBRT when the tumor abuts the great vessels such as aortic arch or SVC?
Do you modify your volumes? What dose constraints do you use? How would you determine your dose/fraction regimen?
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Radiation Oncology · City of Hope
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I think there are several reasonable approaches here. The first part is whether this is curative intent (early stage) vs non-curative but for local control (i.e. oligometastastic/oligoprogression). I lean towards being more aggressive in the curative intent setting while trying to be a little more c...
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Radiation Oncology · Marshfield Clinic - Rice Lake
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I agree with @Dr. Bradley above. 10Gy x 5, but am not running the center of the lesion much hotter, instead keeping the whole ptv and gtv less than 105% or so.
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