Ablative therapies for lung metastases: a need to acknowledge the efficacy and toxicity of stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy

S Siva¹, S Senan², D Ball³

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¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia shankar.siva@petermac.org.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

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doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdv287. Epub 2015 Jul 8.

S Siva¹, S Senan², D Ball³

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia shankar.siva@petermac.org.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

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Reply to the letter to the editor 'Ablative therapies for lung metastases: a need to acknowledge the efficacy and toxicity of stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy' by Siva et al.
de Baère T, Aupérin A, Deschamps F, Chevallier P, Gaubert Y, Boige V, Fonck M, Escudier B, Palussiére J. de Baère T, et al. Ann Oncol. 2015 Oct;26(10):2196-7. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdv301. Epub 2015 Jul 20. Ann Oncol. 2015. PMID: 26193885 No abstract available.

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de Baère T, Aupérin A, Deschamps F, Chevallier P, Gaubert Y, Boige V, Fonck M, Escudier B, Palussiére J. de Baère T, et al. Ann Oncol. 2015 May;26(5):987-991. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdv037. Epub 2015 Feb 16. Ann Oncol. 2015. PMID: 25688058 Free PMC article.