ASTRO Issues New Guideline on Brain Metastases

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has developed a new guideline on the radiotherapeutic and surgical management of newly diagnosed brain metastases. It has been published in ASTRO’s official clinical practice journal: Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO).

“This guideline was developed by an international multidisciplinary task force charged with systematically reviewing and synthesizing level one and other high-quality data into a distilled work product,” says Eric L. Chang, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles. “It should help clinicians make solid evidence-based decisions, while still allowing best clinical judgment to fill in knowledge gaps not readily addressed by the guideline.” For more information, click here to read the full release.