… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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) …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… awareness for a new clinical entity termed oligometastases. This term was coined to describe
a … The oligometastatic state was to sit within this biological spectrum. This oligometastases …

… for the treatment of oligometastatic and oligopersistent disease arises from the fact that, rather
… of new sites of metastases by aggressive ablative local therapy to the oligometastatic sites. …