Physics Bucharest 2017

Oligometastases

Standard treatment for metastatic cancer

= systemic therapy…

Subset of patients with limited metastatic sites =oligometastases

= local treatment? (SBRT…)

Definition oligometastatic: A limited number of clinically detectable

Clinical indications

metastatic tumors where the extent of disease exists in a transitional state between localized and widespread systemic disease

Lo, Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2009 Hellman & Weichselbaum 1995

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