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Radiation Oncology • General Radiation Oncology
Is it safe to start immunotherapy concurrently with radiation to a bone metastases?
In a patient being treated with a palliative course of radiation for a bony metastasis from lung cancer is it safe to start immunotherapy for POD or would it be preferable to wait until radiation is completed?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Great question! This depends on the unique clinical situation with respect to dose, fractionation, and field size. Radiation therapy and immunotherapy in partnership may have the capability of delivering a therapeutic effect exceeding the sum of its parts. The possible relationship has now been...
Per Bang et al.:https://www.redjournal.org/article...
We had good data presented at ASTRO 2018 meeting l...