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Photon Radiation Treatment After Effects FYI
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 24 5:43pm | Replies (19)Comment receiving replies
@bens1 They used a CT scan for treatment planning, not MRI. The radiation machine uses IGRT and IMRT during treatment. My oncologist never mentioned the spaceoar but did make me go get "gold seeds" which I found out later from another radiation oncologist was a stupid idea as the machine technology was such that it targeted the area on it's own. My guy made me wait 4 months from my first visit until I actually had my first treatment. Getting those seeds took waiting 1.5 months to get an appt with my urologist to do it.
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@suzdog Yeah, that is kind of weird since gold fiducials are usually used in 5 visit SBRT (cyberknife and others) treatments to target the gland; as you say, the simulation visit programs the software in the machine on where to go - and where not to, so the gold markers are useless.
IMRT doesn’t usually use rectal spacers if there’s a chance that some PCa cells are near the rectum; you do not want to block the beams from hitting it.
Seems that your RO kind of did his own hybrid approach🤔??
Phil