Oligometastatic Disease in NSCLC—Not Just Wishful Thinking?

E Stone, SK Vinod - Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 2019 - jto.org
… The state of oligometastatic disease in NSCLC (OM-NSCLC) represents a stage of disease
with outcomes that may surpass conventional expectations for metastatic lung cancer. For a …

Curing metastatic disease with ablative radiation therapy: Separating truth from wish

SC Kamran, AL Zietman - International Journal of Radiation …, 2020 - redjournal.org
Oligometastatic disease is a radiographic diagnosis and thus subject to all the limitations
of … It is also possible that the oligometastatic state may reflect no more than the improved …

Is surgery warranted for oligometastatic disease?

T Treasure, F Macbeth - Thoracic Surgery Clinics, 2016 - thoracic.theclinics.com
Oligometastatic disease is now a popular term but what exactly does it mean? As argued in
… The authors conclude that the oligometastatic state is a therapeutic opportunity where there …

Prognostic and predictive biomarkers in oligometastatic disease

KJ Barnum, SA Weiss - The Cancer Journal, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… However, this is not always true for patients with oligometastases whose disease may be
amenable to curative-intent local therapies. It has been proposed that an “intermediate …

[HTML][HTML] Oligometastases: history of a hypothesis

MT Milano, T Biswas, CB Simone II… - Annals of palliative …, 2021 - apm.amegroups.org
… This is particularly true for the treatment of oligometastases, as patients with metastatic
disease can (at one extreme) experience rapid disease progression, and (at the other extreme) …

From Idea to Clinical Practice: A Brief History of Oligometastatic Disease

PT Tran, P Sutera, RM Phillips, MP Deek… - International Journal of …, 2022 - redjournal.org
… and treat patients with what we now term “oligometastatic disease.” 1 It is fitting that the …
Karnofsky Memorial lectures, 3 the “oligometastatic state” is an intermediate point along a …

Oligometastases: learning from the past, building for the future

DA Palma - International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology …, 2022 - redjournal.org
… Skeptics of the oligometastatic state argued that we should be wary of nonrandomized
studies showing “better-than-expected” survival after ablative treatments because those studies …

Beyond oligometastases

DA Palma, GS Bauman, GB Rodrigues - International Journal of …, 2020 - redjournal.org
… Some authors argue that the oligometastatic state is a separate disease entity (variously
defined with upper limits of 1, 3, 5, or 10 metastases) and that such patients are amenable to …

Approach of oligometastatic cancer with intent of cure-exploring the road to recovery: interim analysis

S Shanmugam, RR Pravenkumar - International Surgery Journal, 2024 - ijsurgery.com
… of patients with true oligometastatic disease and the diagnosis is based solely on imaging
findings.The intent of treatment for oligometastatic cancer can be (a) to cure oligometastases, …

[HTML][HTML] Altering the natural history of oligometastatic prostate cancer with local therapies: reality versus illusion

PT Tran, ES Antonarakis - Journal of oncology practice, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of the biology of the oligometastatic state may also uncover … , assuming that the oligometastatic
state is molecularly distinct, … hold true for men with hormone-sensitive oligometastatic