How do you choose between SBRT and RFA for CRC metastases to the liver?
*What dose and fractionation do you recommend for metastases >4cm in favorable positions (ie. not abutting mucosal tissue)?
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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Local tumor control rates for radiofrequency ablation in appropriately selected patients are >90%. It also has convenience and cost-effectiveness advantages over SBRT. Typically the tumors that are peripheral are amenable to this, but there are there also the tumors that may not result in a survival...
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