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Target Volume Delineation Guidelines in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

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Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare disease with poor prognosis. Solitary treatment methods were not found to be effective, and the treatment of choice is trimodality treatment including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy (RT). The conventional RT field is the whole ipsilateral hemithorax. MPM has a tendency to recur in drain sites; therefore, all previous instrumentation sites should be included in the RT field. This chapter aims to guide the radiation oncologists for the delineation of target volumes and critical organs in the treatment of MPM while treating with three-dimensional RT and intensity-modulated radiation therapy.

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    Gokhan Ozyigit MD, Pervin Hurmuz MD, Sezin Yuce Sari MD, Gozde Yazici MD & Melis Gultekin MD

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Ozyigit, G., Hurmuz, P., Sari, S.Y., Yazici, G., Gultekin, M. (2016). Target Volume Delineation Guidelines in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. In: Ozyigit, G., Selek, U., Topkan, E. (eds) Principles and Practice of Radiotherapy Techniques in Thoracic Malignancies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28761-4_19

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