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- Title
When should patients with brain metastases receive whole brain irradiation?
- Authors
Trifiletti, Daniel M.; Larner, James M.; Sheehan, Jason P.
- Abstract
The author revisits the original rationale for whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) and its benefits and limitations. He notes that WBRT serves as adjuvant therapy to improve local and regional control for patients with limited brain metastases (BMs) who underwent open surgical resection and/or stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). He believes that big data will serve to analyze variables involved in patients' survival with BMs and define a population of patients where WBRT becomes the standard of care.
- Subjects
BRAIN metastasis; RADIOTHERAPY; IRRADIATION; STEREOTACTIC radiosurgery; BIG data; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Journal of Radiosurgery & SBRT, 2016, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2156-4639
- Publication type
Opinion