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Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers
Would you offer prostate SBRT to a patient who cannot have an MRI?
Patient has contraindication to MRI but otherwise has what seems to be a favorable intermediate risk prostate cancer
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Agree with Dr. @Parikh, 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 ...
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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Yes