What small bowel dose constraints do you utilize when treating resected pancreatic cancer?
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?
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Radiation Oncology · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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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.
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