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- Title
An 87-year-old patient with repeated oligorecurrences over six years whose disease were treated with radiotherapy alone.
- Authors
Hyong Geun Yun
- Abstract
In the clinical state of oligometastases or oligorecurrence, a transitional state between localized and widespread systemic disease, local control of the disease may yield improved systemic control. Radiotherapy may be a good means for controlling oligometastatic tumors, particularly in very old patients for whom surgery may be infeasible. A combination of systemic therapy and local therapy is necessary to prevent systemic progression. Some kinds of cancers found in the elderly are known to be somewhat indolent for systemic progression. So, for very old patients who refuse or cannot tolerate chemotherapy, the use of radical radiotherapy alone to treat oligorecurrences may be very helpful. We successfully treated an 87-year-old patient who had been diagnosed with oligorecurrences three times over six years with radiotherapy alone. The patient is now, about four years after his first radiotherapy for liver metastasis, alive without any evidence of cancer and with fully active performance status.
- Subjects
RADIOTHERAPY
- Publication
Radiation Oncology Journal, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 4, p266
- ISSN
2234-1900
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.3857/roj.2014.32.4.266