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Would you offer radiation alone to localized recurrence of extensive stage small cell lung cancer while on maintenance immunotherapy or would you start alternative systemic therapy?
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Medical Oncology · Indiana University School of Medicine
The role of local therapy for the treatment of patients with ES SCLC has been evaluated in a number of phase 3 trials. The first trial, which was published by Jeremic et al., PMID 10561263 over 20 years ago, reported a survival advantage for adding thoracic radiation to chemotherapy compared with ch...