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Do you offer surveillance brain imaging for patients with EGFR+ NSCLC, stable systemic disease on TKI, and no history of metastatic brain disease?

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Medical Oncology · University of Colorado Cancer Center

There are very few data based on randomized trials but we know that the brain is a major site of progression even with osimertinib so I get a brain MRI every 6 months.

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Medical Oncology · Valley Med Onc

In the absence of data showing improved clinical outcomes from surveillance, and in light of the anxiety and costs associated with scans, I don’t.

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