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When treating prostate or other pelvic malignancies, what dose constraints do you use for the sigmoid colon?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

The data on cervical cancer RT with EBRT and brachy uses same constraints number for rectum and sigmoid (<65 -70 Gy to 2cc) . The corelation of sigmoid dose to toxicity is less as it is more forgiving because of organ moton. Dosimetric number which one reports is worse case scenerio not accounting f...

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