Your patient is being treated for prostate cancer. The pati…
Your patient is being treated for prostate cancer. The patient is starting their 4th week of treatment. The patient is being treated on a Varian 2100 CD accelerator (calculated SSD 100cm). He is receiving IMRT treatments to 7 different ports. The prescription of the initial dose is 45 Gy to the tumor bed at 1.8Gy per fraction. The patient will also be receiving a boost of 32.4 Gy to the tumor bed at 1.8 Gy per fraction. The prostate is located 9.6 cm posterior to the anterior surface of the patient and 18.7 cm from the patient’s right side. The patient’s AP/PA separation is 33.7 cm and the lateral separation is 37.4 cm. What is the total number of fractions the patient will receive?