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SBRT for lung cancer: What's your experience?
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My CT scans have also indicated the presence of Interstitial Lung Disease (there are many types!) as well as my multifocal lung cancer. After my Pulmonologist indicated "radiation induced pneumonitis" and told me I could not do immunotherapy, I did some research and found the following articles that explains some things:
"Management of Lung Cancer in the Patient with Interstitial Lung Disease"
https://academic.oup.com/oncolo/article/28/1/12/6847063
Here is another article (more technical)
"Radiation recall pneumonitis induced by PD-1/PD-L1 blockades: mechanisms and therapeutic implications."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7499987/
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Thank you for the reference articles, very interesting reading. I scanned them quickly and plan to go deep in preparation for my visit to Mayo next week. SBRT isn’t an option because the region had previously been radiated. Immunotherapy hadn’t been on the table and now I suspect why. Surgery had previously been discounted because of my severe COPD, but now is under discussion. This will make for an interesting discussion with my Onco.