Considerations on surgery invasiveness and response and toxicity patterns in classic palliative radiotherapy for acrometastases of the hand: a hint for a potential role of stereotactic body radiation therapy? A case report and literature review

Considerations on surgery invasiveness and response and toxicity patterns in classic palliative radiotherapy for acrometastases of the hand: a hint for a potential role of stereotactic body radiation therapy? A case report and literature review

BackgroundThe rarity of hand acrometastases hampers the consensus-building for their optimal management among the involved oncology professionals. In the current literature, demolitive surgery overcomes the use of palliative radiotherapy, which proved to be ineffective in more than 30% of cases trea...

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Main Authors: Gianluca Ferini, Valentina Zagardo, Anna Viola, Marco Maria Aiello, Mandara Muralidhar Harikar, Tejas Venkataram, Paolo Palmisciano, Salvatore Ivan Illari, Vito Valenti, Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
acrometastases
hand metastases
stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)
metastatic lung adenocarcinoma
palliative radiation therapy
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2023.1146041/full

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