A Time to Ignore “No Meat, No Treat”
Restaging computed tomography scans of the chest/abdomen/pelvis are needed to assess extracranial disease burden and determine whether there is an accessible lesion for biopsy (if systemic therapy will be considered).1 Furthermore, this serves to rule out the potential of another primary that may warrant whole-brain radiation therapy consideration (ie, small cell lung cancer).
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Tim J. Kruser, Jeffrey A. Sosman Tags: Gray Zone Source Type: research
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