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What precautions or modifications, if any, would you employ when considering lung SBRT for early NSCLC in a patient recovering from acute lung injury?

For example, in a patient recovering from COVID pneumonia who is no longer a surgical candidate due to decline in pulmonary status, and still has clinical and radiologic sequelae of their acute lung injury.
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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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For a patient recovering from COVID-19 pneumonia, I would hold SBRT until the patient has recovered fully from acute infection, i.e., no more fever, cough, and/or SOB. The patient's breathing should recover to close to pre-COVID-19 pneumonia status and chest CT image showed resolution of COVID-19 ac...

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