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Would you offer prostate SBRT to a patient who cannot have an MRI?

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last, that yes, in a global sense, it's feasible.

My only caveat - we routinely use the MRI to help delineate the urethra, as our institutional prostate SBRT dose is 40 Gy in 5 fractions to PTV, with hard constraint of limiting DMax of urethra to < 42 Gy. I routinely plan t...

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Radiation Oncology · Michigan Healthcare Professionals, PC

Yes

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