Radiotherapeutic approaches to metastatic disease.
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.
Chow
Edward
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Department of Radiation Oncology, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, ON M4 N 3M5, Toronto, Canada. Edward.Chow@tsrcc.on.ca
Wu
Jackson
J
Loblaw
Andrew
A
Perez
Carlos A
CA
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