Would you consider local therapy (e.g. XRT) in patients with mRCC with oligometastatic disease progression?

If current systemic treatment is otherwise controlling the disease and is well-tolerated, is there value to locally aggressive therapy in an attempt to preserve future treatment options?

Medical Oncologist

This is a good question. The role of local therapy in mRCC should (in my opinion) be limited to 2 settings. a) A patient with mRCC who is experiencing pain from a metastatic site. b) A patient with an indolent disease course and overall low volume of metastatic disease in whom local therapy ...

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Medical Oncologist at University of Washington School of Medicine
Agree. May add that in some cases, SBRT to a singl...

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