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Radiation Therapy of Bone Metastasis

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Radiotherapy of bone metastasis is simple and efficient. Doses are variable, but single fraction can be proposed to patients with short life-expectancy. Longer treatments are not statistically different in terms of pain relief, bone fracture, or relapse but appear to be more utilized, because time to relapse is longer than observed with shorter treatment. Recently, series where patients were given stereotactic treatment, delivering very high doses, have been published. The results are very promising.

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Noel, G., Truntzer, P., Guihard, S. (2012). Radiation Therapy of Bone Metastasis. In: Mueller, P., Adam, A. (eds) Interventional Oncology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1469-9_16

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