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Do you use an age limit cutoff for SBRT in lung cancer?

Is there a certain age beyond which it is not safe to do SBRT?
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Radiation Oncology · Cleveland Clinic
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We do not use an age-based cut-off when considering safety/eligibility for SBRT, instead treating patients with appropriate overall health and condition, and lesions which are sufficient to warrant treatment.

Our own institutional experience (Videtic et al., Pract Radia Oncol 2017) describes the ou...

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