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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Alongi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3425528 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alongi Filippo F Arcangeli Stefano S Filippi Andrea Riccardo AR Ricardi Umberto U Scorsetti Marta M
The oncologist 20120620 8
In patients with proven distant metastases from solid tumors, it has been a notion that the condition is incurable, warranting palliative care only. The term "oligometastases" was coined to refer to isolated sites of metastasis, whereby the entire burden of disease can be recognized as a finite number of discrete lesions that can be potentially cured with local therapies. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a novel treatment modality in radiation oncology that delivers a very high dose ...[more]