External beam radiotherapy in bone metastatic prostate cancer: Impact on patients' pain relief and quality of life

Oncology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 399-404

  Di Lorenzo, Giuseppe ^a   Autorino, Riccardo ^b   Ciardiello, Fortunato ^a   Raben, David ^c   Bianco, Cataldo ^a   Troiani, Teresa ^a   Pizza, Carmine ^d   De Laurentiis, Michele ^a   Pensabene, Matilde ^a   D'Armiento, Massimo ^b   Bianco, A Raffaele ^a   De Placido, Sabino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Ospedale di Nola   (Italy)

Author keywords

Metastatic prostate cancer; Pain relief and quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AGED; BONE TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18544402264     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.10.2.399     Document Type: Article

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