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Radiation Oncology • Sarcoma
What treatment fields and dose do you use in the treatment of postoperative angiosarcoma of the scalp?
With the high rates of recurrence postoperatively with angiosarcomas of the scalp, adjuvant radiation is often recommended. What margins would you give around the scar/skin graft? Or would you recommend treating the entire scalp? What dose would you recommend postoperatively? Would positive or close margins change your dose recommendation?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
This is hard disease to treat with high propensity of local and distant relapse . The volume of treatment varies based on extent of involvement as most of the time it presents as diffuse disease and you end up treating almost entire scalp. But if lesion is small one can treat with limited field with...
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