ArticleRadiation oncology (London, England)2015
Palliative radiotherapy with or without additional care by a multidisciplinary palliative care team in patients with newly diagnosed cancer: a retrospective matched pairs comparison.
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- Impact of a Multidisciplinary Palliative Radiation Therapy Clinic on Patient Care.Advances in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- What is an "early palliative care" intervention? A scoping review of controlled studies in oncology.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- Improving the Integration between Palliative Radiotherapy and Supportive Care: A Narrative Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Review
- Palliative care in everyday practice of radiation oncologists : Results from a web-based survey among medical members of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO).Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2019Article
- IMproved MAnagement (IM-MA study) in cancer-related pain: the value of a joint approach by an integrated team of radiotherapist and anesthetist.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2019Article
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- Impact of early palliative interventions on the outcomes of care for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2016Article
- Profile of patients undergoing palliative radiotherapy: A single-institute study from a tertiary care oncology center.South Asian journal of cancerArticle
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Abstract
purposeTo analyze survival after early palliative radiotherapy (RT) in patients managed exclusively by regular oncology staff or a multidisciplinary palliative care team (MPCT) in addition.
methodsRetrospective matched pairs analysis. Comparison of two groups of 29 patients each: MPCT versus none. Early RT started within three months after cancer diagnosis.
resultsBone and brain metastases were common RT targets. No significant differences in baseline characteristics were observed between both groups. Twelve patients in each group had non-small cell lung cancer. Median performance status was 2 in each group. Twenty-seven patients in each group had distant metastases. Median survival was not significantly different. In multivariate analysis, MPCT care was not associated with survival, while performance status and liver metastases were. Rate of radiotherapy during the last month of life was comparable. Only one patient in each group failed to complete radiotherapy.
conclusionsMPCT care was not associated with survival in these two matched groups of patients. The impact of MPCT care on other relevant endpoints such as symptom control, side effects and quality of life should be investigated prospectively.
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