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Would you offer SRS to a hippocampal metastasis in a patient with ES-SCLC treated with prior WBRT?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Rochester
I agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last. The brain metastasis is a greater risk to the patient than SRS would be. Whether the prior WBRT used hippocampal sparing or not would not change my recommendation.
I am not well-versed in neurocognitive anatomy. But it is feasible to injure (or remove) 1 hippocampus ...