Is there any role for palliative radiation in the treatment of pericardial metastases?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Palliation • Cardiology • Cardio-Oncology

Assuming the patient is symptomatic and/or has compression of ventricles, what field design and dose-fractionation would you use?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

I love these “have you ever” questions. Somehow, as you get gray in the hair and long in the tooth, you’ve done about every weird thing and I have done a few very crazy cardiac mets over the course of my career. I was on a publication for one of the wildest ones: Kazemi et al., PMI...

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Radiation Oncologist at The Oregon Clinic-Radiation Oncology West
I treated a patient in her 20s who developed biops...

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Yes

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