Hemostatic Effect of Palliative Radiation Therapy in Preventing Blood Transfusions from Bleeding Occurring within Advanced Gastric Cancer

Purpose: To report the hemostatic effects of palliative radiation therapy (RT) for the prevention of blood transfusions (BT) in patients with advanced gastric cancer (AGC). Methods and Materials: Twenty-eight patients who received palliative three-dimensional conformal RT for hemostasis of gastric b...

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Main Authors: Norio Mitsuhashi, Hajime Ikeda, Yoshitaka Nemoto, Mayumi Kuronuma, Masahiro Kamiga, Yoshinori Hiroshima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2021-12-01
Series:Palliative Medicine Reports
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Online Access:https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/PMR.2021.0041