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Is there a role for Local Tx of the Primary Tumor for Patients with Metastatic Cancer?
🚫Many studies demonstrate no benefit.
📌We performed a MetaAnalysis to evaluate the average effect of Local Tx across various tumors.
A thread🧵#AMSM #PRIMETX
redjournal.org/article/S0360-…
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🚫Many studies demonstrate no benefit.
📌We performed a MetaAnalysis to evaluate the average effect of Local Tx across various tumors.
A thread🧵#AMSM #PRIMETX
redjournal.org/article/S0360-…
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Critics of Local Tx to the Primary Tumor
📌 Many providers think local control of the primary tumor in the setting of M1 dz is akin to “closing the barn door after the horse has bolted”
📌 Ian Tannock wrote a fantastic article on this back in 2000.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11759650/
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📌 Many providers think local control of the primary tumor in the setting of M1 dz is akin to “closing the barn door after the horse has bolted”
📌 Ian Tannock wrote a fantastic article on this back in 2000.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11759650/
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Supporters of Local Tx
📌Some support aggressive ablation of all sites due to the enhanced ability to detect occult disease with improved imaging technologies and 📉 toxicities with complete ablation.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35831494/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31182289/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34742582/
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📌Some support aggressive ablation of all sites due to the enhanced ability to detect occult disease with improved imaging technologies and 📉 toxicities with complete ablation.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35831494/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31182289/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34742582/
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