What is it about?
Complications matter with radiation therapy. Cognitive impairment after whole brain radiation therapy. But, technology improvement enabled the hippocampus-sparing whole brain radiation therapy. However, a caution is necessary until clinical feasibility of this novel approach is confirmed.
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Why is it important?
Radiation oncologists should think one more time when implementing novel radiation technology before verification through well-structured clinical trials.
Perspectives
This article will help to choose radiation therapy methods in clinics; emphasizing on treatment efficacy, or treatment complication.
Seung-Gu Yeo
Soonchunhyang University
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This page is a summary of: Perihippocampal metastasis following hippocampus-avoiding prophylactic cranial irradiation for small cell lung cancer: a case report, OncoTargets and Therapy, August 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ott.s143719.
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