Stereotactic Radiation for Lung Cancer: A Practical Approach to Challenging Scenarios

Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an effective and well-tolerated treatment for medically inoperable patients with early stage NSCLC. SBRT a noninvasive involving the delivery of ablative doses high precision in course few treatments. Relative to conventionally fractionated radiation, achieves superior local control survival. use has increased dramatically past 15 years currently considered standard care cases It being increasingly applied more complex patient populations at higher risk treatment-related toxicity. In these patients, there increasing need balance factors selecting optimal SBRT. Here, we review several challenging clinical scenarios often encountered thoracic multidisciplinary tumor boards.