What small bowel dose constraints do you utilize when treating resected pancreatic cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers

When indicated as in the setting of positive margins and/or positive lymph nodes, do you use V45 <195cc (QUANTEC), or V45 <15% (RTOG 0848), and do you have a recommendation for V50?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Questioning the normal tissue tolerance in the setting of a resected pancreatic cancer raises a number of issues. To answer the question of which of the listed dose constraints I use, the answer is neither. There has been a general trend in the field to use less conventional radiation therapy posto...

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