Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for ‘Oligometastases’: a Treatment in Search of Evidence

Looking forward lung metastasectomy—do we need a staging system for lung metastases?

“…In these patients new approaches are available such as radiotherapy, radiofrequency and microwave ablation, and immunotherapy, but these treatments are in search of evidence (7). Recently, new strategies have been reported to obtain long term survival such as VATS lung suffusion, and a phase I trial isolating cisplatin for 30 minutes to the side of metastasectomy or primary lung cancer with oligometastases is underway (8).…”