Has the Pattern of Practice in the Prescription of Radiotherapy for the Palliation of Thoracic Symptoms Changed Between 1999 and 2006 at the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 693-700

  Fairchild, Alysa ^a   Goh, Philiz ^b   Sinclair, Emily ^b   Barnes, Elizabeth A ^b   Ghosh, Sunita ^a   Danjoux, Cyril ^b   Barbera, Lisa ^b   Tsao, May ^b   Chow, Edward ^b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose fractionation; Lung cancer; Palliative radiation; Patterns of practice; Thoracic symptoms

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL PROBLEMS; ONCOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; LUNG CANCER; PALLIATIVE RADIATION; PATTERNS OF PRACTICE; THORACIC SYMPTOMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERTIFICATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38849202507     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.10.046     Document Type: Article

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