title: Radiotherapeutic approaches to metastatic disease.
abstract: Bone metastases in patients with prostate cancer are common. Prostate cancer patients also have a relatively long survival. Palliative radiation can provide effective symptom control in many clinical settings. This article focuses on the management of bone pain and its complications (pathological fractures and spinal cord compression) with radiation treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, ON M4 N 3M5, Toronto, Canada. Edward.Chow@tsrcc.on.ca
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: Jackson
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Loblaw
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Perez
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology / Q000532:radiotherapy