E Keit, S F Lee, M Woodward, K Shiue, I Desideri, E Oldenburger, M Beinz, M B Agyeman, M Theodorou, M Froid, C B Simone, H H M Yu, J Yarney, A Rembielak, D Rades, P Hoskin, P A S Johnstone
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): Increasing technology of radiation treatment planning and delivery, better systemic therapies, and randomized trials in the population of patients (pts) with brain metastases have provided robust targeted options. This has resulted in palliative whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) being used far less frequently than previously. Most centers preferentially use stereotactic radiation surgery (SRS) for pts with several lesions and may reserve WBRT for those with poor performance, with rapidly progressive disease, or with leptomeningeal presentation...
October 1, 2023: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics