ReviewJournal of bone oncology2015
Quality of life after palliative radiotherapy in bone metastases: A literature review.
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- Osteolytic Bone Metastasis: Different Radiotherapy Fractionation Schedules Compared Clinically and Radiographically.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Trial
- Evaluation of Quality of Life Outcomes Following Palliative Treatment of Bone Metastases with Magnetic Resonance-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: An International Multicentre Study.Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)) · 2018Trial
- Bone metastases from endocrine cancer: advances in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- A Comprehensive Perspective on Educational and Economic Barriers for Utilization of Palliative Radiation Therapy in Hospice: A Narrative Review.Advances in radiation oncology · 2024Review
- Treatment of Pelvic and Spinal Bone Metastases: Radiotherapy and Hyperthermia Alone vs. in Combination.Cancers · 2024Article
- Patient reported outcomes following whole brain radiotherapy in patients with brain metastases in NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- Comparison of pain-relieving effects by number of irradiations, through propensity score matching and the international consensus endpoint.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2023Article
- Association BetweenJTO clinical and research reports · 2022Article
- The Burden of Metastatic Cancer-Induced Bone Pain: A Narrative Review.Journal of pain research · 2022Review
- Palliative Radiation for Cancer Pain Management.Cancer treatment and research · 2021Article
- Inconsistencies in assessment of pain endpoints in radiotherapy for painful tumors: Analysis of original articles in the Green and Red Journals.Clinical and translational radiation oncology · 2020Article
- Radiotherapy for pain relief from bone metastases during Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2020Article
- Medical Treatment of Advanced Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Role of Oxycodone Hydrochloride in Treating Radiotherapy-Related Pain.Pain research & management · 2020Review
- BOMET-QoL-10 questionnaire for breast cancer patients with bone metastasis: the prospective MABOMET GEICAM study.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2019Article
- Targeted α Therapies for the Treatment of Bone Metastases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
- A Pilot Study in the Use of Activity Trackers for Assessing Response to Palliative Radiotherapy.Cureus · 2017Article
- The spine instability neoplastic score (SINS) in the assessment of response to radiotherapy for bone metastases.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2017Article
- The Src family kinase inhibitor dasatinib delays pain-related behaviour and conserves bone in a rat model of cancer-induced bone pain.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Bone Pain and Muscle Weakness in Cancer Patients.Current osteoporosis reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the quality of life (QOL) following palliative radiotherapy for painful bone metastases.
methodsA literature search was conducted in OvidSP Medline (1946-Jan Week 4 2014), Embase (1947-Week 5 2014), and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Dec 2013) databases. The search was limited to English. Subject headings and keywords included 'palliative radiation', 'cancer palliative therapy', 'bone metastases', 'quality of life', and 'pain'. All studies (prospective or retrospective) reporting change in QOL before and after palliative radiotherapy for painful bone metastases were included.
resultsEighteen articles were selected from a total of 1730. The most commonly used tool to evaluate QOL was the Brief Pain Inventory. Seventeen studies collected data prospectively. An improvement in symptoms and functional interference scores following radiotherapy was observed in all studies. The difference in changes in QOL between responders and non responders was inconsistently reported.
conclusionQOL improves in patients who respond to palliative radiotherapy for painful bone metastases.
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