Usually means: Radiation therapy to prevent brain metastases.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Prophylactic cranial irradiation)

noun:  a technique used to combat the occurrence of metastasis to the brain in highly aggressive cancers that commonly metastasize to brain, most notably small-cell lung cancer.


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