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81 with localized grade 3: I want quality over quantity. Thoughts?
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@climateguy Man, did you really nail it!
Especially this excerpt, because the technicians said nearly the exact same thing to me. I was telling them that I was in pain, not feeling well, 3 sessions into a five session sbrt. If I had it to do over again, I would spread the radiation out over a longer period.
Your words below……..
“The operators deal with the fact they know what they do is not perfect by consoling themselves, if they've been around long enough, with how much things have improved over the butchery and mayhem they know has gone on in the past.”
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@oldgreenpaint I had in mind a comment made by Mack Roach in a video. Dr. Roach is recognized as a world authority on RT. He was discussing the history of radiation treatment for prostate cancer.
He said he had been the first to publish, several decades ago, about how the method of putting tattoos on patients to aid machine operators in lining up the patient so their external beam would hit their target, could completely fail if patients were too obese.
The tattoos could not be relied upon to indicate accurately where the prostate was because the thick layer of fat these patients had allowed the skin the tattoos were on to shift too much. He said in some cases the external beam treatment would miss the prostate entirely! !!
Todays RT is light years ahead of this type of thing. However, when RT gets even better in coming years, todays less catastrophic sources of error will become more commonly discussed....