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Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer: Bone Metastasis and Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression

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Advances in Radiation Oncology in Lung Cancer

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Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients may develop bone metastases (BM) frequently. Depending on the metastases’ location, it may affect to a greater or lesser extent the patient’s quality of life, with spinal involvement being especially serious if it causes spinal compression. Rapid local treatment is of paramount importance for optimal symptom management.

Radiotherapy (RT) plays a fundamental role in this scenario. A careful screening of patients is essential on the basis of both their general condition and the prognosis of the disease, as assessed by different prognostic scores, published research, and consensus guidelines. At present we have different techniques for the administration of RT: whereas in patients with a poorer prognosis, conventional single-fraction RT is preferred, in patients with a more favorable prognosis technique such as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), increasing local control (LC) with acceptable toxicity should be considered.

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    Begoña Taboada-Valladares, Patricia Calvo-Crespo & Antonio Gómez-Caamaño

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Taboada-Valladares, B., Calvo-Crespo, P., Gómez-Caamaño, A. (2022). Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer: Bone Metastasis and Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression. In: Jeremić, B. (eds) Advances in Radiation Oncology in Lung Cancer. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2022_343

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