Thetermoligometastases, introducedin19951 anddetailedmore recently, 2 describes an
intermediate state of cancer spread between localized disease and widespread metastases …

Oligometastatic disease is defined as “a condition with a few metastases arising from tumors
that have not acquired a potential for widespread metastases.” Its behavior suggests a …

Objective Several recent studies have shown that oligometastatic disease has curative
potential, although it was previously considered to signal a patient's last stage of life …

Advances in radiotherapy planning and delivery have been used to treat patients with
limited metastatic disease. With these techniques, high rates of treated metastasis control …

BACKGROUND: A subset of patients with metastatic cancer in limited organs may benefit
from metastasis‐directed therapy. The authors investigated whether patients with limited …

Background Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) is a safe and locally effective treatment for
patients with inoperable oligometastases. The challenge remains identifying subsets of …

BACKGROUND. It is hypothesized that oligometastatic disease represents a state of
potentially curable, limited metastases. Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an …

An oligometastatic state has been proposed wherein patients with metastases limited in
number and location may benefit from local therapy directed at all known sites of …

PURPOSE: To characterize oligometastases in patients enrolled on two prospective pilot
studies, treating oligometastases with hypofractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy and …

Patients with metastatic solid tumors are usually treated with palliative intent. Systemic
therapy and palliative radiation are often used, with the goals of prolonging survival or …