Patterns of care and course of symptoms in palliative radiotherapy: A multicenter pilot study analysis

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 461-466

  Van Oorschot, Birgitt ^a   Schuler, Michael ^a   Simon, Anke ^b   Schleicher, Ursula ^c   Geinitz, Hans ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

^c Center for Radiotherapy   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Indications; Palliative radiotherapy; Pattern of care; Side effects; Symptom relief

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIFE EXTENSION; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PILOT STUDY; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SPLEEN CANCER; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052265897     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-2231-9     Document Type: Article

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