How would you manage a treatment-naive patient who has painful vertebral lesions from ES-SCLC?
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Radiation Oncology · Michigan Healthcare Professionals, PC
ES-SCLC is incurable. If they are in pain, treat their pain.
Chemotherapy is palliative. TRT may extend life, but the average life expectancy with ES-SCLC is limited.
Don't let patients in pain suffer when we have an effective way to treat them.
I would consider very short courses - 1-2 fx SBRT (per...