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Would you recommend radiation to oligometastatic boney site for an otherwise pure seminoma who had a CR to BEP x4?

Given prognosis is poor per Oing, et al, Annals of Oncology, 2016, would you recommend radiation?
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Radiation Oncology · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
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I would first suggest getting a biopsy of the bone lesion.

  1. It can be difficult to assess response in a bone met.
  2. Solitary bone met is extremely rare in germ cell cancers.

If there is disease that did not respond to 4xBEP at a metastatic site, this suggests that the patient harbors micometastic dis...

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