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How would you treat a patient with oligometastatic disease to the lung for whom SBRT/SABR is not feasible?

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Radiation Oncology · Michigan Healthcare Professionals, PC

I am not sure what this means exactly, as far as not technically feasible. Very old machine? Lack of dosi/physics support? If you can do VMAT with image guidance at your machine, you can probably do SBRT/SRS. You just need to have physics do their thing.

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

If it is not technically possible because your machine does not have the feasibility to do SBRT (say, a machine that only does step and shoot with kVs, without VMAT or CBCT), then I would refer the patient out to a center/machine capable of doing SBRT.

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