Incidence of distal bone metastases in patients treated for palliative radiotherapy and associations with primary tumour types

Incidence of distal bone metastases in patients treated for palliative radiotherapy and associations with primary tumour types

Purpose: This study assesses the incidence of distal bone metastases in palliative radiotherapy (RT) patients. Material and methods: All courses of RT for bone metastases from 2007–2011 for patient living in British Columbia (BC) were identified in a provincial RT programme. Treated bone metastases...

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Main Authors: Mark Barnes, Manpreet S. Tiwana, Andrew Kiraly, Mitch Hutchison, Robert A. Olson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Bone Oncology
Subjects:
Bone metastases
Palliative radiotherapy
Single fraction
Multiple fractions
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212137415300075

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