Palliative radiation therapy of symptomatic recurrent bladder cancer

Pain Physician

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-290

  Yi, Sun K ^a   Yoder, Mark ^b   Zaner, Ken ^b   Hirsch, Ariel E ^a,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Palliation; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; GEMCITABINE; IBUPROFEN; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXYCODONE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSURIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; ILEAL CONDUIT; INTRACTABLE PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECURRENT CANCER; RESTLESSNESS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SLEEP TIME; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UNSTEADINESS; URINARY FREQUENCY; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34147103453     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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