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Sure, that's reasonable. Especially for say a myeloma patient who has years of systeimc therapy to go. It's always worth a discussion with med onc, IMO, in this situation. But improving OS with palliative RT needs to be a discussion point here, even if it is 'just' a R-PhII.There are some med oncs out there that will hate you if you tell them you want to irradiate half of the sacrum for an asymptomatic bone met based on a Phase II study, if the patient is scheduled to start Carbo/Pem/Pem. Frying the bone marrow in the pelvis can aggrevate cytopenia.
A sacrum, a scapula, a rib, something else non-weight bearing, maybe less likely to have a SRE compared to say a femoral neck, acetabulum, pubic ramus, humerus (fall on outstretched arm with cancer in it frequently bad)