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VIDEO: Single dose of RT suffices, but will radiation oncologists adopt the strategy?


 

AT ASCO 2017

– The randomized SCORAD III trial shows that a single 8-Gy dose of radiation therapy has efficacy similar to that of a 20-Gy dose given over the course of a week for treating metastatic spinal cord compression in patients with modest survival, first author Peter Hoskin, MD, FCRP, FRCR, said in a video interview at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. But will radiation oncologists adopt this new strategy?

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