207_Combined course Presentations

The Oligometastatic State

 In such a state of limited disease burden (≤ 5 mts), the eradication of all sites of metastatic disease with a local therapy (either surgery or radiotherapy) could result in long-term survival or even cure in a subgroup of pts  This hypothesis is based on long-term survival following surgical resection of limited lung and liver metastases in some tumors  Extracranial oligometastases are different from intracranial oligometastases , which represent an established clinical entity where surgery, radiotherapy, radiosurgery have defined roles supported by phase III RCT and detailed outcome analyses