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Comparison of two multifraction radiotherapy schedules in management of painful bone metastases: A single institution prospective study.
Niger J Clin Pract
November 2019
Department of Radiation Oncology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Background: Metastatic disease of bone is a common complication of most of the advanced malignancies. The majority of patients with bone metastases (BM) experience pain during their disease course and pain control can significantly improve their quality of life. Radiotherapy (RT) is an important modality in the management of BM and different schedules are followed worldwide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper is aimed at approaching radiation therapy methods to physicians of other specialties and pointing to the potential of radiation therapy in the management of lung cancer patients. With the reference to its incidence and mortality rates, lung cancer ranks among the most frequent human malignant tumors. Therapy procedures for lung cancer depend upon tumor histology type, stage of disease and patient general condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Radiotherapy of cancer of the gastric cardia--report on 40 patients].
Zhonghua Zhong Liu Za Zhi
July 1991
Fourty patients with cancer of the gastric cardia as proven by pathology or cytology were treated by radiation therapy from January 1985 to October 1986. All patients except four who refused operation had lesions too advanced for surgical intervention. Telecobalt was used to deliver 60-70 Gy/6-7 wk through 3 or 4 portals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Radiation sensitivity studies of inoperable and recurrent rectal carcinomas].
Strahlenther Onkol
January 1989
Abteilung Radio-Onkologie, Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch, Osterreich.
Two pilot studies on the radiosensitivity of rectum carcinomas have been conducted, during which 42 patients with inoperable primary tumors or recurrences were irradiated with focal doses of about 60 Gy. A rate of 38% of objective remissions was observed under conventional telecobalt irradiation, 20% were progressing in spite of radiotherapy. In case of simultaneous peroral administration of razoxane, an objective remission rate of 67% was observed, and none of the tumors was progressing during or immediately after radiotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Hand metastases--a rare metastatic form of colorectal carcinoma].
Dtsch Med Wochenschr
May 1988
Chirurgische Universitäts- und Poliklinik, Abteilung für Chirurgie, Hamburg.
24 years after the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis had been made a now 77-year-old man was found to have carcinoma of the rectum. One year after its resection lung metastases and a sacral recurrence became apparent. Two years later swelling of the left hand was at first diagnosed as Sudeck's atrophy, but subsequent tests revealed a metastasis of the known adenocarcinoma to the hand.
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