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Would you offer preoperative radiation for an intrathoracic leiomyosarcoma in the posterior mediastinum?

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Radiation Oncology · The Ohio State University - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

I would want further details (age, grade, size, specific anatomic relationships, etc), but most likely yes.

DOSE AND FIELD: I would typically treat GTV + 1.5 cm anatomically constrained expansion to 50.4/28, plus any suspicious edema on T2 STIR. By analogy with retroperitoneal sarcomas, I think one ...

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