What rates of hemorrhage do you quote to patients receiving SRS/fSRT to intact brain metastases?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I have not had very many patients develop a hemorrhage into a brain metastasis treated with SRS. And those that have hemorrhaged probably had a tendency to do that with their initial presentation with brain metastases. And these hemorrhagic brain metastases have a higher incidence of symptomatic pre...
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Radiation Oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center I tell the patient brain mets can bleed whether or...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I agree with @Laurie E. Gaspar. I have seen only a few hemorrhages within 60 days of SRS, and the majority were within 7-14 days, which would be unlikely for SRS, and these were predominantly in melanoma and RCC, lesions that would be prone for hemorrhage. So I would not quote a number since this is...
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Radiation Oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center While I agree SRS related hemorrhage is rare, I di...
Radiation Oncologist at University of Missouri at Columbia, Ellis Fischel Cancer Cener OK, thank you. That is good to know. We don't do p...
I tell the patient brain mets can bleed whether or...