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How do you counsel patients on imaging findings after liver SBRT for HCC, particularly with regard to expectations on timing to tumor resolution?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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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