Recent innovations in oncology area helped to improve the prognosis of certain cancers including metastatic ones with a decrease in mortality. Recommendations describe the treatment of metastatic cancer as systemic therapy or complementary care and the role of locoregional treatment in the treatment plan only occurs in a palliative context. Currently, in the clinical practice, out of "the evidence based medicine", an early locoregional therapy (surgery or radiation therapy) can be proposed in several cases of metastatic cancers. The aim of the present review is to describe the role of the primary tumor radiation therapy in metastatic disease. In metastatic breast, prostate, cervix, rectal or nasopharyngeal cancers, locoregional treatment including radiation therapy can, in some cases, be discussed and decided in MDT. Ongoing clinical trials in these locations should soon precise the benefit of this locoregional treatment. It will also be important to define the specific criteria in order to select patients who could benefit from this treatment.
Bulletin du cancer. 2016 Dec 09 [Epub ahead of print]
Chloé Rancoule, Cécile Pacaut-Vassal, Alexis Vallard, Benoite Mery, Jane-Chloé Trone, Anis El Meddeb Hamrouni, Nicolas Magné
Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département universitaire de la recherche et de l'enseignement, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France; Laboratoire de radiobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire de Lyon Sud - CNRS UMR 5822, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, BP 12, 69921 Oullins cedex, France., Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département d'oncologie médicale, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France., Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département universitaire de la recherche et de l'enseignement, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France., Laboratoire de radiobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire de Lyon Sud - CNRS UMR 5822, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, BP 12, 69921 Oullins cedex, France; Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département d'oncologie médicale, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France., Institut de cancérologie Lucien-Neuwirth, département universitaire de la recherche et de l'enseignement, département de radiothérapie, 108 bis, avenue Albert-Raimond, BP 60008, 42271 Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France; Laboratoire de radiobiologie cellulaire et moléculaire de Lyon Sud - CNRS UMR 5822, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, BP 12, 69921 Oullins cedex, France. Electronic address: .