Does receipt of chemoimmunotherapy for LS-SCLC impact your recommendation for PCI?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
Historic data showed that the addition of PCI for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer showing response after chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival and decreases brain failure rates by about 50%. Recently, the addition of consolidation immunotherapy after concurrent chemoradiothe...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
As someone who dislikes whole brain and would very much like to see it disappear in my career, I would agree that the standard of care currently for limited SCLC would be to offer PCI, even in the setting of the ADRIATIC trial where one could potentially speculate that there may be some intracranial...