{
  "id": 10474419,
  "title": "Radiosurgery linked to longer survival for small cell lung cancer with brain metastases",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/radiosurgery-linked-to-longer-survival-for-small-cell-lung-cancer",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-28T15:00:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-radiosurgery-linked-longer-survival-small.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that had spread to the brain lived a median of 17 months after focused stereotactic radiosurgery, compared with nine months after an advanced form of whole-brain radiation therapy, an unexpected secondary finding from the first randomized Phase III trial to compare the treatment approaches in this population.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}