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When do you recommend prone breast radiation?

Are there any quantitative measures that you use to help select patients such as breast size or heart dose? Or do you use a case-by-case qualitative approach?
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Radiation Oncology · Michigan Healthcare Professionals, PC
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If the plan is for whole breast radiotherapy without nodal treatment, I treat almost all women prone. The only women that are treated supine are those that have lump cavities that preclude the benefit of a prone plan (positioned posteriorly along chest wall, so tangents cut through lung/heart) or th...

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Radiation Oncology · Johns Hopkins University
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I treat at prone for whom I plan to treat whole breast, with no intention to cover low axilla or ipsilateral IMN. If breast hang adequately ( usually cup breast size large B & above) , I prefer prone position for dose homogeneity, less lung ( if any at all) and rib exposure.

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