Do you offer consolidative RT for patients with oligometastatic NSCLC who initially presented with a malignant pleural effusion?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies

Is a pleural effusion not oligometastatic by definition? The best evidence for consolidative RT was the MD Anderson/U Colorado/Western Ontario phase II trial which excluded patients with a malignant pleural effusion.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27789196

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

You cited a very important trial. When its results were published I thought they were a real sockdolager to any continued wholesale radiotherapeutic nihilism towards asymptomatic M1 NSCLC patients. (I must admit, in training during years 1999-2003 I can't remember anyone using the word "oligometasta...

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