Can thoracic nodes oligometastases be safely treated with image guided hypofractionated radiation therapy?
Davide FranceschiniFederico BianciardiRosario MazzolaFiorenza De RosePiercarlo GentileFilippo AlongiMarta ScorsettiPublished in: The British journal of radiology (2019)
Radiotherapy is safe and effective treatment for thoracic nodes metastases, higher radiotherapy doses are correlated to better LC. Oligometastatic patients can receive IG-HRT also for thoracic nodes metastases.
Keyphrases
- radiation therapy
- sentinel lymph node
- spinal cord
- early stage
- locally advanced
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- radiation induced
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- squamous cell carcinoma
- small cell lung cancer
- lymph node
- mass spectrometry
- smoking cessation
- replacement therapy
- brain metastases