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Treatment of bone metastasis is an important part of daily work in radiation oncology. The effect of pain relief has been regularly observed [2, 4, 6–9, 12–15]. An objective assessment of palliation, on the other hand, is difficult. For various reasons treatment schedules with one or with only a few sessions have been widely used [3, 5, 11]. Busy linear accelerators and shortness of financial resources are two reasons for this practice; the patients wish to stay at home as long as possible and to spend only minimal time in a treatment unit is another reason. These new treatments regimens have been evaluated in randomized and nonrandomized trials, but the selection of patients and the endpoints have varied considerably in these studies, and the conclusions have been conflicting [1, 3, 10], We therefore started a prospective, nonrandomized trial in Zurich. The intention was to define and register in advance the goal of treatment, score the intensity of pain at regular intervals after treatment, evaluate the activity of the patient, and compare different schedules.
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Lütolf, U.M., Huguenin, P., Glanzmann, C. (1994). Palliative Radiotherapy of Bone Metastases. In: Diel, I.J., Kaufmann, M., Bastert, G. (eds) Metastatic Bone Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78596-2_10
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