Stereotactic body radiation for nonspine bone metastases is associated with a low rate of local failures, fractures, and acute toxicity, according to a large meta-analytic review.
Pulmonary malignancy is one of the most frequent and fatal cancers in older patients. Studies have shown that lung cancer patients have a high incidence of lower respiratory tract infections.
Researchers identified a handful of prognostic factors to create a synthetic control arm, which can ultimately replace placebo control arms in future trials of salvage-line metastatic CRC.