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Selective mediastinal irradiation
• The high negative predictive value of PET for mediastinal lymph
nodes, can be exploited by irradiating only PET-positive areas
• Selective mediastinal node irradiation results in low isolated nodal
failure rates
De Ruysscher et al. 2005; Int.
J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys.
62:998-994