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Lyman practical example
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Physician-rated xerostomia >gr1
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‘symptomatic’
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In this limited dataset:
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Can use all patients
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Reasonable number of responders (23 of 73.)
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Which organ(s) at risk?
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The Lyman model needs (effectively) one?
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The ipsilateral parotid? (Most at risk?)
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The contralateral parotid? (Ensure sparing one?)
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Parallel organs! Just combine all the tissue in one
DVH?