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Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers in Oligometastatic Disease.
Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2000
Barnum Kevin J, Weiss Sarah A
Abstract excerpt
Metastatic lesions are largely responsible for cancer-related deaths and are synonymous with a poor prognosis. However, this is not always true for patients with oligometastases whose disease may be amenable to curative-intent local therapies. It has been proposed that an "intermediate state" (oligometastasis) exists in between locoregional and advanced disease states; however, the clinical definition of...
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