Alternative methods for local ablation-interventional pulmonology: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To discuss and summarise the background and recent advances in the approach to bronchoscopic ablative therapies for lung cancer, focusing on focal parenchymal lesions.

Background

This series focusses on the challenges highlighted by increasing recognition of the prognostically more favourable oligometastatic disease rather than the more frequent, but prognostically poor, high tumour burden metastatic disease. While surgery, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), and trans-thoracic percutaneous ablative techniques such as microwave (MWA) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) are well recognised options for selected cases of pulmonary oligometastasis, bronchoscopic approaches to pulmonary tumour ablation are becoming realistic alternatives. An underlying tenet drivi

SUBMITTER: Olive G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8350102 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature