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Would you consider local therapy (e.g. XRT) in patients with mRCC with oligometastatic disease progression?

If current systemic treatment is otherwise controlling the disease and is well-tolerated, is there value to locally aggressive therapy in an attempt to preserve future treatment options?
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Medical Oncology · Cleveland Clinic
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This is a good question. The role of local therapy in mRCC should (in my opinion) be limited to 2 settings.

a) A patient with mRCC who is experiencing pain from a metastatic site.

b) A patient with an indolent disease course and overall low volume of metastatic disease in whom local therapy such as...

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