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Gap Correction: - What Usually Do We Practice? AND - What Does The Standard Text Books Say ?

The document discusses the importance of not prolonging radiation therapy treatment times. It notes that standard textbooks recommend minimizing treatment time, and that prolonging treatment has been shown to reduce local control of head and neck cancers by 1.4% per day and cervical cancers by 0.5% per day. The document calls for developing a practice guideline to address this issue.

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Gap Correction: - What Usually Do We Practice? AND - What Does The Standard Text Books Say ?

The document discusses the importance of not prolonging radiation therapy treatment times. It notes that standard textbooks recommend minimizing treatment time, and that prolonging treatment has been shown to reduce local control of head and neck cancers by 1.4% per day and cervical cancers by 0.5% per day. The document calls for developing a practice guideline to address this issue.

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Gap Correction

What usually do we practice? AND What does the standard Text Books say ?

Dr Arunangshu Das

Dr Arunangshu Das

Dr Arunangshu Das

A bit Controversy !

Dr Arunangshu Das

Why it is BAD to prolong Rx Time


First proposed by Withers and by Fowler in 1980s. In Head & Neck Cancer local control is reduced by about 1.4% (range 0.4-2.5%) for each day that the overall treatment time is prolonged. In Carcinoma Cervix, a mean of 0.5% local control (range 0.3-1.1%) is lost for each day that the overall time is prolonged.

Dr Arunangshu Das

What should we do ?

Develop a Practice Guideline

Thank You

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