Liver SBRT and being rural
I am able to do liver SBRT safely. in turn, that makes me the only person in my neck of the woods that can treat a solitary liver lesion definitively (no surgeon here would do this, and no IR). I was referred a patient with HCC by the local med onc. The lesion was originally thought to be a lung met. The patient is 80 and relatively healthy, but doesn't want surgery, and isn't really interested in driving somewhere to meet with interventional radiology, or for that matter a hepatolgist...
Liver SBRT and being rural
Source: Student Doctor Network - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Ray D. Ayshun Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
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