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Radiation Oncology · Mayo Clinic
- Aizer et al., JCO 2025 - A multi-instituitional Brigham Dana-Farber-led trial randomized 196 patients with 5-20 brain metastases to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or hippocampal avoidance whole brain radiotherapy (HA-WBRT). Patients treated on the SRS arm had significantly less symptom burden, wit...
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Radiation Oncology · Columbia University Irving Medical Center
The study from Boston on radiosurgery versus whole brain for up to 20 brain mets is quite a discussion in my department. My understanding is that radiosurgery for multiple brain mets up to 20 appears to have favorable neurocognitive preservation rather than whole brain.