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Would you recommend radiation therapy for a pathologic vertebral compression fracture already treated with kyphoplasty and RFA (OsteoCool)?

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Radiation Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Assuming there is active disease in the vertebral body in question, I would recommend radiation therapy. An abstract was presented at the last ASTRO describing a retrospective small series from Roswell Park (Prezzano et al) suggesting that the combination of RFA and RT was beneficial for spine metas...

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