Table 1.

Oligometastatic disease representing a specific condition between locally confined curable disease and incurable metastatic disease

	Early disease	Locally advanced disease	Oligometastatic disease	Metastatic disease
Disease extend	small primary tumor, no lymph node metastases	large primary tumor, lymph node metastases	solitary or few metastatic lesions	multiple organ involvement
Chance of cure	high (90%)	medium (50%)	zero?	zero
Treatment intent	curative	curative	curative?	palliative
Type of treatment	locoregional + adjuvant systemic	locoregional + adjuvant systemic	systemic + local?	systemic