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Would you utilize SRS/SBRT in a patient with oligometastatic disease from adenocarcinoma of the lung who is unable to receive standard chemotherapy?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Ultimately, any attempt at promoting a durable progression free survival period for patients with metastatic NSCLC, even if oligometastatic, usually would require the ability of the patient to tolerate some systemic therapy. Nearly all of the studies that have incorporated local therapies in the for...

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Radiation Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine

I agree with @Dr. First Last. The principal focus of using SBRT/local therapy for oligometastatic has come to bear more recently in an era with improved systemic therapy, and an understanding that the sites most likely to progress after an initial course of systemic therapy are the initial sites of ...

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