How would you approach treatment of a recurrent brainstem metastasis following prior SRS?
Can a second course of SRS be completed? If so, what dose do you recommend?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Recurrent brainstem metastasis can be quite catastrophic. In the upfront setting, I recommend treating to an adequate tumoricidal dose (unfortunately I've seen folks back off significantly in the brainstem and this can result in lower LC rates). Having said that, should a recurrence occur, I would n...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Missouri at Columbia, Ellis Fischel Cancer Cener I would agree.
Re-treatment with SRS can be consi...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
As @Albert Attia has mentioned, recurrence/progression of an insufficiently treated metastasis in the brainstem is a very difficult predicament. I agree it is best to treat these lesions with a dose with a high probability of control. If the lesion is large enough that such a dose is worrisome ...
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Radiation Oncologist at University of Missouri at Columbia, Ellis Fischel Cancer Cener I agree completely with the first part, that adequ...
I would agree. Re-treatment with SRS can be consi...