Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in Metastatic Disease: The Known Unknowns and the Unknown Unknowns

Medical reversals are many and frequent, but this should be considered a sign of progress and testament to the evidence-based medicine era that we live in. For most of us, when we were training, we were taught that there was no point irradiating the tumour(s) unless you could give a radical dose to all disease. This was accepted dogma, handed down from generation to generation. The fact that this assertion has been turned on its head in the last few years is testament to how little we still know about cancer and how much we have to learn.
Source: Clinical Oncology - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research