Palliative radiotherapy
Palliative radiotherapy in addition to self expanding metal stent for improving dysphagia and survival in advanced oesophageal cancer (ROCS: Radiotherapy after Oesophageal Cancer Stenting): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... plus palliative radiotherapy in patients with incurable esophageal ...dysphagia. Radiotherapy will be administered as 20 Gray (Gy) in five fractions over one week or 30 Gy in 10 fractions over two ...
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Assessing Patient Outcomes after Palliative Radiotherapy Using IG IMRT
... that palliative IG-IMRT using helical TomoTherapy with StatRT soft- ware provides patients with symptom relief that is at the very least comparable to palliative radiotherapy treat- ments with more ...
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Short course palliative radiotherapy followed by chemoradiation with curative intent in advanced and unresectable head and neck cancer
... In conclusion, head and neck cancers are the major public health problem in a developing country like India. Most of these patients presented with the advanced and unresectable stages. Most of them are not suitable for ...
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A Prospective Study of the Effect of Different Palliative Radiotherapy Fractionation Schedules on Tumor Response and Toxicity in Advanced Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients
... of palliative radiotherapy (RT) in symptomatic ad- vanced lung cancer is ...thoracic palliative RT with age up to 65 y and Performance Status (PS) 0 - 2 and no significant cardiac or lung ...
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Evaluation of Quality of Life and Psychological Response in Recurrent and Metastatic Tumors Treated with Palliative Radiotherapy
... of palliative therapy for recurrent or metastatic tu- mors, pain relief or QOL improvement is more important than survival prolon- gation or an improvement in local ...control. Palliative ...
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Efficacy of palliative radiotherapy for gastric bleeding in patients with unresectable advanced gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study
... gastric radiotherapy to stop ...in palliative prognostic index group B or ...of radiotherapy, 11 patients (73 %) achieved hemostasis; rebleeding was observed in four patients (36 ...before ...
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Comparison of Outcomes with Hypofractionated Palliative Radiotherapy ‘Christie Regimen’ Versus Standard Palliative Radiation in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
... of palliative head and neck radiotherapy, but several retrospective series, case- control studies, single arm prospective trials and one small randomized controlled trial 17,18 affirm that its use is ...
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30 day mortality in adult palliative radiotherapy - A retrospective population based study of 14,972 treatment episodes
... NCEPOD [19] in surgery and chemotherapy has led to the rou- tine practise of a retrospective review of all deaths within 30 days. We would recommend an analogous approach, however for single fraction palliative ...
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Comparing the accuracy of survival prediction with two different prognostic scoring systems, in Indian Cancer Patients receiving Palliative Care/Palliative Radiotherapy
... This is to cerfify that the thesis entitled “Comparing the accuracy of survival prediction with two different prognostic scoring systems,in Indian cancer patients receiving palliative care and/or palliative ...
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Appraisal of pain pattern among patients with bone metastasis on treatment with bisphosphonates and palliative radiotherapy
... . Palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases is of significant benefit to patients with painful bone metastasis and metastatic spinal cord ...compression. Radiotherapy plays an important role in ...
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Incidence of pain flare following palliative radiotherapy for symptomatic bone metastases: multicenter prospective observational study
... A secondary objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of the palliative radiotherapy on the pain control and the functional ability of the patients. The BPI is a well-known instrument, and has been ...
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Palliative radiotherapy for advanced Cancer: Are we giving it to the right patient at the right time?
... of palliative radiotherapy received and this may explain the ...not palliative anticancer therapy is worthwhile in a patient with advanced ...of palliative radiotherapy, successfully ...
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Utilization of palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases near end of life in a population-based cohort
... Time to death was calculated from last course of palliative RT. This time interval (in weeks) was categorized into three groups :< 2, and 2–4, and > 4 weeks. Association be- tween these categories and the ...
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Palliative radiotherapy utilization for cancer patients at end of life in British Columbia: retrospective cohort study
... Regarding regional differences in PRT use, the lowest PRT rates in this study were in the Northern (i.e. Northeast, Northern Interior), Vancouver Coastal (i.e. North Shore/ Coast Garibaldi) and Interior regions (i.e. ...
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Patterns of referral and knowledge of palliative radiotherapy in Alberta
... Treatment focus then shifts to symptom control and quality of life. Some patients might receive palliative systemic therapy under the care of medical oncolo- gists (MOs), and others might be followed by ...
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The Palliative Radiotherapy and Inflammation Study (PRAIS) - protocol for a longitudinal observational multicenter study on patients with cancer induced bone pain
... All authors have participated in the planning of the study or recruitment of patients. PK is the Principal investigator. PK, RH, TCSF and JÅL have organized and requited patients in the study at St Olavs hospital, ...
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Palliative radiotherapy near the end of life
... 4]. Palliative RT for brain metas- tases may result in stable or improved neurologic symp- toms in about half of patients [5], however is also associated with side effects [6] and may not improve overall survival ...
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Patterns of practice in palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases in UK centres
... As mentioned, patterns of practice may vary between radiotherapy centres. A review collated several trials to determine global patterns of practice (22) . It was found that radiation oncologists from the United ...
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Role of palliative radiotherapy in unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: population-based analysis with propensity score matching
... The present study is an analysis of SEER data in 4,027 patients, including 847 patients who underwent palliative RT. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the largest report on patients with unresectable ICC ...
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Fractionated palliative thoracic radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer – futile or worth-while?
... standard palliative radiotherapy schedules were 30Gy/10F, 25Gy/5F, 15Gy/3F and ...of radiotherapy (start/end) and number of fractions received were retrieved through the ARIA planning ...
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