The Effect of Systemic Steroids on the Incidence of Bone Pain Flare with Palliative Irradiation
Background: A significant number of patients who receive palliative irradiation for painful bone metastases experience pain flare, defined as a distressing transient increase in pain not immediately controlled by additional analgesics. This pain is postulated to be due to edema at the onset of ra...
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| Language: | English |
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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Middle East Journal of Cancer |
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| Online Access: | http://mejc.sums.ac.ir/index.php/mejc/article/view/128/124 |