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Anand Swaminath, MD, Discusses Rationale for Assessing SBRT Vs CRT in Central/Peripheral NSCLC - Cancer Network
In recent years, health care providers have become increasingly concerned around the use of stereotactic radiation for lung cancers that are found near the center of a patient's chest, according to an expert. As a result, Anand Swaminath, MD, and colleagues, wanted not only to assess the efficacy, but also the safety of stereotactic body radiation in a group of patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Swaminath, an associate professor, clinician scientist, and radiation oncologist at Juravinski Cancer Centre in Ontario, Canada, spoke with CancerNetwork ® during the 2022 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting and discussed why they compared stereotactic body radiotherapy with a 3-week conventional hypofractionated radiotherapy regimen for patients with stage I medically inoperable NSCLC. Transcript: The standard of care right now for stage I lung cancer is to have surgery. But radiation is a suitable alternative to surgery, and a specifi...
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