No benefit to adding limited radiation in advanced cancer OncTwitter
Seven patients in the experimental group did not complete radiotherapy due to early progression or intercurrent illness.Over a median follow-up of 12.5 months, median progression-free survival was 4.4 months in the radiotherapy group versus 2.8 months in the control group .
Median overall survival was not significantly better with radiotherapy compared with the control group , nor was the objective response rate . However, a post hoc analysis demonstrated a significant association between the number of irradiated lesions and overall survival among patients receiving radiotherapy (HR, 0.31;IN PRACTICE:
Although the study was negative overall, the post hoc analysis coupled with"recent evidence suggests that treating all active disease sites with higher radiation doses...may be a more promising strategy to optimize systemic disease control," the authors concluded.
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