Once-Weekly, High-Dose Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer: 6-Year Analysis of 60 Early-Stage, 42 Locally Advanced, and 7 Metastatic Lung Cancers

SBRT is noninvasive, convenient, fast, and economically attractive; it achieves results similar to surgery for early or metastatic lung cancer patients who are older, debilitated, and with comorbidities. Elderly patients and/or patients medically unfit for combined modality therapy with locally advanced disease can find an effective palliative alternative in SBRT.