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What is your preferred treatment for spinal drop metastases from a glioblastoma?

Would you modify your dose/fractionation dependent upon intracranial control of the primary tumor?
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Radiation Oncology · Florida International University
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This is a relatively uncommon, but challenging clinical situation, and usually the prognosis is poor. Our approach is as follows:

1. Detailed MR imaging of the spine to ensure that the failure is truly focal, and not multifocal or leptomeningeal:

2. Thorough re-imaging of the brain to ensure that t...

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