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What rates of hemorrhage do you quote to patients receiving SRS/fSRT to intact brain metastases?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Colorado School of Medicine

I have not had very many patients develop a hemorrhage into a brain metastasis treated with SRS. And those that have hemorrhaged probably had a tendency to do that with their initial presentation with brain metastases. And these hemorrhagic brain metastases have a higher incidence of symptomatic pre...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Missouri at Columbia, Ellis Fischel Cancer Cener

I agree with @Dr. First Last. I have seen only a few hemorrhages within 60 days of SRS, and the majority were within 7-14 days, which would be unlikely for SRS, and these were predominantly in melanoma and RCC, lesions that would be prone for hemorrhage. So I would not quote a number since this is a...

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