When would you include treatment of the entire staple line for an NSCLC staple line recurrence?
Would you consider treating with conventional fractionation to the entire staple line with a boost to the gross disease?
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Radiation Oncology · Cleveland Clinic
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I was taught years ago that the whole staple line has been to be considered at risk since it is anatomically distorted and "nobody" knows exactly where the foci of microscopic disease may be hiding. In the scenario where there is a true focus then of recurrent disease on the staple line, I have ther...
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