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Would you offer RT to a large infiltrative renal metastasis in a patient with minimal other systemic disease?

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

With modern treatment delivery techniques, there really are no longer any regions in the body in which a potentially therapeutic dose of radiation cannot be delivered, and durable local control can be achieved in locations where this was not possible in the past. Nevertheless, as the question implie...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Toronto

If patient is oligometastatic, I think renal SABR is a reasonable option, and there does not appear to be a location restriction (i.e. central close to hilum vs. more peripheral) based on the experience of the IROCK individual patient meta-analysis of >200 patients.

Siva S, 2018 Mar 1;124(5)...

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