A Population-Based Study of Palliative Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases in Patients Dying of Prostate Cancer.

Related Articles A Population-Based Study of Palliative Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases in Patients Dying of Prostate Cancer. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2019 May;9(3):e274-e282 Authors: Cho CJ, Sunderland K, Pickles T, Bachand F, Chi KN, Tyldesley S Abstract PURPOSE: Increasing the survival of patients with metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) may affect the demand for palliative radiation to bone (PRTB). Our aim was to characterize the use of PRTB in patients who died of PCa in British Columbia between 2003 and 2015. METHODS AND MATERIALS: All patients with a diagnosis of PCa who died during the study period (n = 23,260) were identified from a…
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