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When treating a soft tissue sarcoma close to humeral head, what humeral head dose constraint should be used?

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This is a fantastic question particularly in light of your absolutely correct assessment that the literature is silent on this issue. And osteonecrosis of the humeral head and humeral fractures have certainly been reported (e.g. Rossleigh et al (1986) Cancer); this coupled with a potential arthritis...

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