Would you offer empiric lung SBRT for two growing FDG-avid lung lesions in a patient with severe COPD on oxygen?
Is there a numerical limit to the number of lesions you would treat empirically without pathology?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
This is a good question! The short answer is yes, most likely. Many patients are too high-risk to receive biopsies; this is decided by surgery/pulm/IR. Unless the patient has contraindications to RT or something like severe IPF (where treatment may be worse than the disease), I would likely offer th...