After radiotherapy, do bone metastases from gastrointestinal cancers show response rates similar to those of bone metastases from other primary cancers?

Current Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 18-24

  Hird, A ^a   Chow, Edward ^a   Yip, D ^a   Ross, M ^a   Hadi, S ^a   Flynn, C ^a   Sinclair, E ^a   Ko, Y J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone metastases; Gastrointestinal cancers; Palliative radiotherapy; Response

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; REVIEW;

EID: 68649119590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17187729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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