The role of radiotherapy in management of metastatic bone disease.
Pain relief from bone metastases is achieved in 80 percent of patients by local irradiation. Response to local irradiation is much faster in metastases from breast and lung than in prostate bone metastases. Local irradiation is also very effective in preventing pathological fractures in lytic bone lesions, and healing of the pathological fractures by new bone formation.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000532:radiotherapy; D010166:Palliative Care