What small bowel dose constraints do you use when treating with short course radiation for rectal cancer?
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Radiation Oncology · Henry Ford Health System
In my experience, I have set a small bowel max of 25 Gy; sometimes allowing up to 27 Gy. This was out of an abundance of caution; our initial experience (1) was with 20 Gy/5 fractions and there was concern about increasing the radiation dose to 25 Gy. Also, we wanted to make sure that patients with ...