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Confronting Complexity: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Localized Lung Cancer with a Pacemaker
Malak Chahid1,2, Hanae El Gouach1,2,3, Mohamed Reda Cherkaoui Jaouad1,4
1Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Casablanca, Morocco.
Case Reports in Oncology
|October 30, 2024
Summary
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) offers a safe and effective treatment for lung adenocarcinoma in patients with pacemakers. This approach, involving careful cardiac evaluation, resulted in no cancer recurrence and maintained pacemaker function.
Area of Science:
- Oncology
- Cardiology
- Radiation Oncology
Background:
- Lung cancer management in pacemaker patients poses unique challenges.
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an option for inoperable lung cancer.

