[Radiation therapy of metastatic sites in hepatoma].
Ten patients with hepatoma who had received radiotherapy for their metastatic sites have been reviewed. In 13 lesions of bone metastasis in 7 patients complete pain relief from 5 lesions (38%) was achieved, while partial relief (54%) was obtained in other lesions. Of 3 patients with a brain metastasis, one attained complete symptomatic improvement with a 65% tumor reduction, and one of the remaining two gained a symptomatic palliation. In a patient with two pulmonary metastases, intraarterial chemotherapy showed a more remarkable effect when treatment was combined with radiotherapy than intraarterial chemotherapy alone. It may be concluded that radiation therapy is effected modality for palliating metastatic lesions of hepatoma.
Imanaka
K
K
Dept. of Radiology, Tenri Hospital.
Takahashi
M
M
Sadatoh
N
N
Hatabu
H
H
Tamaki
T
T
Fujiwara
K
K
Suzuki
Y
Y
Miki
Y
Y
Kawakami
K
K
Sano
A
A
D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged