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Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies
Do you recommend treating the chest-tube site or pleural biopsy tract in patients receiving RT for malignant pleural mesothelioma?
If so, what technique and dose would you suggest?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I'm not sure that there is yet a definitive answer to this question.in the UK we used to use 21Gy in 3# with electrons to the chest wall sites -anecdotally I don't recall anyone coming back at that time with local recurrence but many may not have lived long enough back then for us to see it.It might...
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