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

Assuming the patient is symptomatic and/or has compression of ventricles, what field design and dose-fractionation would you use?
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Radiation Oncology · Mayo Clinic
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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., PMID 31993571. I’ve a...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida
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Yes

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