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Radiation Oncology • Gastrointestinal Cancers • Medical Oncology • Liver and Pancreas Tumors • Hepatocellular Carcinoma
How do you counsel patients on imaging findings after liver SBRT for HCC, particularly with regard to expectations on timing to tumor resolution?
E.g., the tumor is smaller at 3-6 months, but is still called LR-TR viable based on enhancement/washout/diffusion pattern, etc.
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
My experience has been that the more successful the treatment, the sooner the patients want the good news. In reality, a well-designed and executed SBRT treatment to an ablative dose should result in 85 to 95% tumor control (mostly size independent) at 2 years with very little local progression afte...
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