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When do you recommend prophylactic treatment of spinal metastasis(-es) after initial identification on staging imaging for a metastatic solid tumor?

This assumes no current local pain symptoms or spinal cord compression. Does this recommendation change based on histology? Any other factors to consider?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Colorado School of Medicine
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The closest thing that I have done to prophylactic spinal (vertebral body) treatment would be if someone has a symptomatic spinal metastasis very close (within 2 vertebral bodies) that is going to have radiation treatment. I might include the asymptomatic one so that later there is less probability ...

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