Radiotherapy for Spinal Tumors: Benign and Malignant Primary Tumors, Efficacy of SABR for the Treatment of Spinal Tumors
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Spinal Tumors: Benign and Malignant Primary, Radiotherapy, SABR, TreatmentAbstract
For patients with primary spine tumours, stereotactic body radiation (SBRT) is
becoming the treatment of choice. Patients with primary spine tumours that cannot
be surgically removed can undergo SBRT-based regimens as a neoadjuvant
treatment or as an adjuvant treatment before final surgery. A number of primary
spinal tumours are finding that SBRT-based therapies improve structural,
mechanical, and functional results, making them the radiation treatment of choice.
Due to its ability to safely increase dosages and overcome the radioresistant
phenotype shown in certain primary spine tumours, SBRT and specifically single
fraction radiosurgery is an encouraging new approach to treating these tumours.
Curative treatment with minimal neurologic, mechanical, and functional damage is
possible with SBRT alone or in conjunction with open surgery. Longer follow-up
and the creation of prospective clinical studies will determine the long-term
efficacy of spinal radiosurgery.
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