The efficacy of external beam radiotherapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy for painful spinal metastases from renal cell carcinoma

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Hunter, Grant K ^a   Balagamwala, Ehsan H ^a   Koyfman, Shlomo A ^a   Bledsoe, Trevor ^a   Sheplan, Lawrence J ^a   Reddy, Chandana A ^a   Chao, Samuel T ^a   Djemil, Toufik ^a   Angelov, Lilyana ^a   Videtic, Gregory M M ^a  

^a TAUSSIG CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG USE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

EID: 84866496836     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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