When Should we Define the Response Rates in the Treatment of Bone Metastases by Palliative Radiotherapy?

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-89

  Li, K K ^a   Hadi, S ^a   Kirou Mauro, A ^a   Chow, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone metastases; cancer pain; international consensus; palliative radiotherapy end points

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MORPHINE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSENSUS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38149094093     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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