A volume matched comparison of survival after radiosurgery in non-small cell lung cancer patients with one versus more than twenty brain metastases.

Zhishuo WeiAjay NiranjanHussam Abou-Al-ShaarHansen DengLuigi AlbanoL Dade Lunsford

Published in: Journal of neuro-oncology (2022)

Patients with > 20 tumors showed significantly better LC with similar OS compared to patients with solitary tumors. Current guidelines that restrict the role of SRS to patients with 1-4 tumors should be revised.

Keyphrases

brain metastases
small cell lung cancer
mass spectrometry
simultaneous determination