Would you consider the thymus as an OAR during treatment planning for advanced NSCLC?

With any avoidance, the dose is pushed further somewhere else, with often unclear effects. You really can rob Peter to pay Paul. I reckon that, as automated, AI-guided OAR contouring occurs, many substructures can be feasibly and reliably drawn and then monitored for associated late effects. It is g...

Personally, I'd like to see these findings reproduced in at least two other retrospective studies before I would consider them real. If validated, it's time for more rad oncs to use the D2cm and R50 tables when designing IMRT plans to clamp down on intermediate doses that might otherwise spill into ...

DiGeorge Syndrome results from failure of the branchial pouches to develop the parathyroid and Thymus. The Thymus influences the development of the T lineage lymphocytes, surveillance, memory of infection, and all aspects of T-mediated immunity. The thymic “sail” sign in infants and children worried...