Would you consider accelerated radiotherapy in a patient with locally advanced NSCLC who is not a candidate for chemotherapy?
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Radiation Oncology · Quillen VA Medical Center
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Without knowing many of the crucial issues (tumor/target size), pulmonary function, and with the extrapolation of smaller target data, Bogart published the "fixed dose" at 70 Gy, and reduce time as others were exploring very short fraction SBRT. Others have tod me that they are using 400 cGy fractions x 15 -- equivalent but slightly fewer and lower than the 411 cGy x 17 used in the Bogart report. The Bogart report showed NO dose limiting toxicity, and was not followed up since there was much gre...
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