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Palliative Radiotherapy During the Last Month of Life: Have COVID-19 Recommendations Led to Reduced Utilization?
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- What did COVID-19 pandemics teach us about single-fraction radiotherapy for painful bone metastases-State of the art or undertreatment?Cancer medicine · 2023Trial
- Utilization of radiotherapy and hypofractionated radiotherapy in Japan: long-term trends and the influence of COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of radiation research · 2026Article
- Audit of 30-day mortality following palliative radiotherapy: are we able to improve patient care at the end of life?Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2023Article
- Changes in the quality of cancer care as assessed through performance indicators during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Dual Use of the METSSS Model Predicting Survival After Palliative Radiotherapy: An Exploratory Analysis.Cureus · 2022Article
- Shortened Palliative Radiotherapy Results in a Lower Rate of Treatment During the Last Month of Life.Cureus · 2022Article
- Covid-19 and radiotherapy: a systematic review after 2 years of pandemic.Clinical and translational imaging · 2022Review
- Thirty-day Mortality in Palliative Radiotherapy: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis in a Single Center.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
- Prognostic Score in Radiotherapy Practice for Palliative Treatments (PROPHET) Study for Bone Metastases: An Investigation Into the Clinical Effect on Treatment Prescription.Advances in radiation oncologyArticle
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment at a Japanese Hospital.Cancer diagnosis & prognosisArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
aimThe study aimed to evaluate practice changes in the time period of the early wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. PATIENTS AND
methodsThis was a retrospective single institution study. We defined palliative radiotherapy (PRT) initiated before Saturday, March 14
resultsNational COVID-19 recommendations led to a significant decrease in PRT with 10 or more fractions, while re-irradiation and radiotherapy during the final 30 days of life were equally common before and after these recommendations had been issued in March 2020.
conclusionRapid adoption of modified PRT regimens was feasible. However, the challenge of overtreatment in the final phase of the disease, due to inaccurate survival prediction, persisted.
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