Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Song and colleagues deliver a thorough and fair review of the initial clinical investigations of a new paradigm in radiotherapy most recently called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).[1] Oncology observers may take exception with the use of the designation “new paradigm.” After all, from a tumor control point of view, skeptics might say, “radiotherapy is radiotherapy.” Recent advances in radiotherapeutic technology such as three-dimensionsal (3D) conformal therapy and intensitymodulated radiotherapy (IMRT) have made treatments less toxic, but not particularly more effective in curing cancer.