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Management of patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer and adverse prognostic features: multi-national radiation treatment recommendations are heterogeneous.

Carsten NiederMatthias GuckenbergerLaurie E GasparChad G RusthovenDirk De RuysscherArjun SahgalTimothy NguyenAnca L GrosuMinesh P Mehta
Published in: Radiation oncology (London, England) (2019)
WBRT was infrequently recommended. Even in patients with adverse prognostic features that raised the experts' awareness of an increased risk for futile treatment near the end of life, SRS/SFRT were more often recommended than optimal supportive care, unless a patient decided to forego active treatment.
Keyphrases
  • replacement therapy
  • brain metastases
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