Effect of Radiotherapy on Painful Bone Metastases
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Stereotactic body radiotherapy in the management of painful bone metastases.
More than 100,000 new cases of bone metastases are diagnosed each year, and they present an important clinical problem. They cause significant morbidity and quality-of-life issues in cancer patients. Conventional external-beam radiotherapy is currently the most common method to treat these metastases, with several randomized controlled trials showing no difference in effectiveness between multi...
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Received 4 April 2009 Accepted 25 August 2009 Correspondence to: Andreja Gojkovič Horvat, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Zaloška 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Phone: +386 1 5879 110; Fax: + 386 1 5879 400; E-mail: [email protected] types of cancer with systemic dissemination, especially breast cancer, prostate and lung cancer, with the incidence of ...
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Despite high-level evidence in the literature, the use of single-fraction radiotherapy (RT) for management of painful bone metastases is not widely practiced in the world, as highlighted in several practice-pattern surveys. Fractionation of palliative RT for bone metastases has not been addressed in Iran, where the most common clinical practice is the use of 30 Gy in 10 fractions. Thus, we deci...
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Little is known about what the best treatment is for patients returning with painful bone metastases after their first radiotherapy. Treatment should be individualized and should depend on the histology of the primary tumour, the general condition of the patient, systemic treatment options and prognosis. The precise effect of re-irradiation of painful bone metastases has scarcely been studied. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2374-2437
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.6770