Today, I was wondering how much radiation dose is required for every anatomical site.. How much dose for kidney, how much dose for brain…. WBRT. whole brain radiation therapy. Many things came to my mind. Before googling out, I keep my curosity intact. I interviewed one radiotherapist. Of course he wasn’t sure as radiooncologist are. But he told,” to my knowlege, it all depends on the size of tumor. I am sure about the spinal cord where radiation dose can’t exceed 45 Gy. For kidney, it is just like 2-3 Gy.” I packed up his interview in 4 minutes after getting valuable inputs. Then I was back in my physician mode, discussed things with one of the helpful colleagues and started reading and correlated the info with my board type questions. Ya, I am making it fun and interesting.
Just when got back to my desk, I received encouraging email from Dr. AM 🙂
Feb 22
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