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Patients developing a small number of metastatic lesions

might achieve long-term survival if all these lesions are

ablated with surgery or stereotactic radiotherapy

[Hellman and Weichselbaum, JCO 1995]

The number of patients with oligometastatic disease

receiving aggressive treatment is increasing rapidly.

Palma DA, Nat Rev Clin Oncol 2014