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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

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When should SBRT be preferred in operative patients who cannot undergo a lobectomy?

In other words, if offered wedge or segmentectomy, should SBRT be preferred? Does size matter ie if the lesion is < 3 vs < 2 vs < 1 cm? Does ...

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How does the presence of interstitial lung disease affect your decision to offer SBRT for early stage NSCLC?

Specifically in O2-dependent patients? Have any dose/fractionation regimens been shown to reduce the risk of pneumonitis in this population?

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How do you approach lung tumors with vessel encasement, especially in someone with active hemoptysis?

Is there any concern about hemorrhage from treatment effect on tumor? Would SABR worsen the chance of fatal hemorrhage/hemoptysis and if so, would you...

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What are your criteria for treating a patient with lung SBRT in the absence of a biopsy?

Roughly what percentage of patients are treated without a biopsy?

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Papers discussed in this category

Radiother Oncol, 2011 Nov

Outcomes of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy following a clinical diagnosis of stage I NSCLC: comparison with a contemporaneous cohort with pathologically proven disease.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2006-10-20

Excessive toxicity when treating central tumors in a phase II study of stereotactic body radiation therapy for medically inoperable early-stage lung cancer.

N Engl J Med, 2023 Feb 09

Lobar or Sublobar Resection for Peripheral Stage IA Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.

Lancet (London, England), 2022 Apr 23

Segmentectomy versus lobectomy in small-sized peripheral non-small-cell lung cancer (JCOG0802/WJOG4607L): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial.

Clin Lung Cancer, 2017 Jul 10

Impact of Pretreatment Interstitial Lung Disease on Radiation Pneumonitis and Survival in Patients Treated With Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).

J Thorac Oncol,

Impact of pretreatment interstitial lung disease on radiation pneumonitis and survival after stereotactic body radiation therapy for lung cancer.

Clinical lung cancer, 2018-07

Fatal Radiation Pneumonitis in Patients With Subclinical Interstitial Lung Disease.

Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys., 2017 Mar 15

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2016-06

Pre-treatment non-target lung FDG-PET uptake predicts symptomatic radiation pneumonitis following Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR).

Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR, 2021 Mar 31

Effectiveness of Thermal Ablation and Stereotactic Radiotherapy Based on Stage I Lung Cancer Histology.

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