In a patient with metastatic colorectal cancer to the lung and liver, is there a role for liver directed therapy if the lung is not amenable to local therapy?
The primary tumor was resected previously.
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A 60yo otherwise healthy patient is presented at tumor board who has a history of early stage colon cancer resected 5 years ago and now developed 2 oligometastases in the liver and lung amenable to local therapy. What would be your recommendation?
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Radiation Oncology · Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
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This is a heterogeneous group of patients, so I don’t think there is one answer applicable to all clinical situations. This is why it is so important that these patients be discussed in a multidisciplinary setting. I’m assuming that in this situation the patient has had adequate systemic therapy to ...
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