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Would you offer PMRT to ER/PR+ patients with synchronous bone metastasis?

In what scenarios do the benefits of local control with PMRT outweigh the risks? How would systemic therapy and/or the number of bone metastases impact your decision?
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Radiation Oncology · Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh
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This is a more common scenario despite data suggesting a local survival benefit with the addition of local therapy to patients with metastatic breast cancer.

With synchronous bone mets- we usually start with systemic therapy, ER+ would be endocrine therapy + CDK 4/6 inhibitor commonly. If stable/res...

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Radiation Oncology · Sutter Health N. Cal
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We now have a prospective, randomized trial addressing this issue and it does NOT show an Overall Survival Benefit. Although it was associated with improved locoregional control, this had NO overall impact on quality of life either.

Khan et al., PMID 34995128

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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In general, once local treatment (surgery) route is taken in MDT then follow PMRT for anyone with high risk features (stage III disease) understating that we don’t know of its benefits in terms of survival. Clinical trials done had their own limitations and none added local treatment to metastatic s...

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