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ReviewClinical and translational radiation oncology2019

Treating the Chameleon: Radiotherapy in the management of Renal Cell Cancer.

Nikolaos Tselis, Georgios Chatzikonstantinou

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Review in Clinical and translational radiation oncology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nikolaos TselisDepartment of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Georgios ChatzikonstantinouDepartment of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo review the role of radiotherapy (RT) in the treatment of renal cell cancer (RCC) in the curative and palliative setting. CONTENT: Details related to the clinical outcomes of primary, preoperative, postoperative and palliative RT are discussed, along with a presentation of the established role of surgery and systemic therapy. An overview of data derived from mono- and multi-institutional trials is provided.

conclusionRadiotherapy has been shown to provide good symptom palliation and local control in RCC depending on the dose that can be delivered. There is emerging data suggesting that with the use of high-precision RT methods the indication spectrum of RT can be exploited covering different clinical situations particularly for unresectable local recurrences and oligometastatic disease.

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PMID30886912
PMCPMC6403071

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