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For patients who develop oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma amenable to local therapies (i.e. ablation, radiation therapy, or surgery), how do you integrate systemic therapy, if at all?

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Medical Oncology · University of Virginia

With full disclosure that the answer to this question is in the relm of a data free zone, for patients with oligometastatic disease not on systemic therapy, the answer is of course dependent upon site of disease i.e. CNS vs bone vs liver etc. That said if the solitary site of disease is managed with...

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Medical Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

I agree with @Dr. First Last. If NED otherwise, I would observe after local therapy to mets. If on systemic tx, then we will sometimes use local therapy to progressing lesions (CNS, bone for sure but sometimes even other sites with SBRT). In that case continuing systemic tx depends on the state of o...

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