Stereotactic Radiotherapy

Dear Colleagues,

Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) is a treatment option curing cancer that creates highly conformal dose distributions with steep dose gradients, using advanced planning and treatment equipment. Stereotactic radiotherapy allows for the safe delivery of high doses of radiation to the target lesion, while sparing the surrounding critical organs. More specifically, in clinical practice, it is a useful tool in patients affected by limited metastatic disease, defined as an “oligometastatic state”, which is considered as an intermediate state between localized and widespread cancer. In patients with a limited number of metastases from a variety of primary sites, it seems that SRT might improve overall survival and disease progression-free survival, with a limited cost in terms of treatment related morbidity. SRT is also under investigation for the treatment of primary tumors, instead of surgery or conventional radiotherapy, such for curing lung cancer and prostate cancer. For these reasons, this Special Issue will explore the use of stereotactic radiotherapy in the therapy of solid tumors. Researchers are encouraged to submit their scientific contributions for “Sereotactic Radiotherapy”.

Dr. Gianluca Ingrosso
Guest Editor

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• stereotactic radiotherapy
• solid tumors
• oligometastases
• brain metastases
• stereotactic body radiotherapy
• radiosurgery