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Expanding the knowledge of oligometastatic disease-but uncertainties remain significant.

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Most patients with lung cancer present with advanced disease at the time of diagnosis, when local curative therapy is no longer a treatment option. Among patients with early lung cancer,… Click to show full abstract

Most patients with lung cancer present with advanced disease at the time of diagnosis, when local curative therapy is no longer a treatment option. Among patients with early lung cancer, who are initially treated in curative intent, 6–7% will go on to develop oligometastases, where the metastatic spread is limited in number and site (1).

Keywords: oligometastatic disease; disease uncertainties; uncertainties remain; expanding knowledge; disease; knowledge oligometastatic

Journal Title: Journal of thoracic disease
Year Published: 2019

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