Palliative radiation therapy for painful vertebral metastases: A practice survey

Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2892-2896

  Gupta, Tejpal ^a   Sarin, Rajiv ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSENSUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; INDIA; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 10044259797     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20706     Document Type: Review

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