Bhavini Chaudhari Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology, Breast Cancer, Computed tomography.
Radiation Oncology, Senior Resident, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Manipal Hospital Dwarka, Delhi
Dr. Bhavini Chaudhari is working as a MD Radiation Oncology, Senior Resident, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Manipal Hospital Dwarka, Delhi. And his specialization in the field of Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology, Breast Cancer, Computed tomography.
Case Report Open Access
Author(s): Vikas K Pandey, BK Mohanti, Anusheel Munshi, Kanika Bansal, Khushboo Rastogi, T Ganesh, Rohit S Chauhan, Bhavini Chaudhari
Background: Acute hematological toxicity is one of the side effects of whole lung irradiation(WLI) leading to interruption of treatment. With the novel radiotherapy techniques like Volume Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) it is possible to minimize treatment associated hematological side effects by sparing bone marrow. We report a new technique of Bone Marrow sparing VMAT (MS-VMAT) for WLI. Case Representation: We describe a 20-year male resident of Iraq, diagnosed as Giant cell tumor with pulmonary metastases, planned for 28.8 Gray/16 fractions to lung parenchymal nodules and 24 Gray/16 fractions to bilateral whole lungs using standard VMAT. After 7 fractions of radiotherapy patient developed Grade III hematological toxicity for which new plan was made with MS-VMAT. We generated three plans... view moreĀ»