Table 2.
Study | Patients | Eligibility criteria | Study design | Site of metastases | Therapy | Median follow-up (months) | Median PFS (months) | Median OS (months) | Other therapy (percentage) |
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Breast cancer | |||||||||
Milano et al. [35] | 40 | <5 extracranial metastases | subgroup analysis of a prospective Phase II trial | liver, lung, lymph nodes, bone | SBRT | NR | 23 | not reached | adjuvant chemotherapy/hormonal therapy (80%) |
Colorectal cancer | |||||||||
Kim et al. [55] | 13 | isolated lung metastases | retrospective observational | lung | SBRT | 28 | NR (PFS at 3 years: 11.5%) | NR (OS at 3 years: 64.7%) | chemotherapy (100%) |
Takeda et al. [56] | 15 | lung oligometastases | retrospective observational with LC as primary endpoint | lung | SBRT | 29 | NA (LC at 2 years: 72%)a | NA | NA |
Filippi et al. [57] | 40 | metachronous, at first lung progression | retrospective observational | lung | SBRT | 20 | 8 | 46 | pre-post SBRT chemotherapy (20%) |
Qiu et al. [58] | 65 | synchronous/metachronous lung progression | retrospective observational | lung | SBRT | 6.4 | 5.7 | 20.3 | previous chemotherapy for metastatic disease (69%) |
Comito et al. [59] | 82 | 1–3 lung or liver metastases | retrospective observational | lung, liver | SBRT | 24 | 14 | 32 | pre-post SBRT chemotherapy (95%) |
aLocal control rates were compared with metastases from other origins and primary lung cancer, with statistically significant inferiority (P < 0.05). SRS = stereotactic radiosurgery, SBRT = stereotactic body radiation therapy, PFS = progression-free survival, OS = overall survival, LC = local control, NA = not applicable, NR = not reported.