What volumes do you treat for unresectable tracheobronchial cancer?
Do you electively treat the tracheobronchial tree? Or a certain length of the trachea and bronchus? Does the volume and dose depend on location (tracheal v. bronchus), histology (adenoid cystic v. SCC), previous ablation, and whether chemotherapy can be given?
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Radiation Oncology · Cleveland Clinic
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There is not a lot of literature on the management of primary tracheal cancer, since it is primarily a surgical disease. In the setting where the patient is inoperable or unresectable, then by first principles since it is an aerodigestive cancer, one can extrapolate the role of radiotherapy and chem...
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