- Men and women of childbearing potential must be willing to consent to using effective contraception while on treatment and for at least 3 months after treatment Note: Patient with <6 months of life expectancy will be treated with palliative QUAD shot radiotherapy and those with > 6 months of life expectancy will be treated with conventionally fractionated full dose re-irradiation approach. Additional other factors determining which patients will be treated with Quad Shot therapy rather than full dose are if the patients have poor performance status, bulky or diffuse disease, significant medical co-morbidities, and significant metastatic disease burden.