Patient preference for radiotherapy fractionation schedule in the palliation of painful bone metastases

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2156-2162

  Shakespeare, Thomas P ^a   Lu, Jiade J ^a   Back, Michael F ^a   Liang, Shen ^a   Mukherjee, Rahul K ^a   Wynne, Christopher J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0038205815     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.10.112     Document Type: Article

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