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SHORT-COURSE RADIOTHERAPY EFFECTIVE FOR BONE METASTASES.

Publication: Biotech Business
Publication Date: 01-JUL-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A single high dose of radiotherapy is as effective in relieving the pain from vertebral bone metastases as ten smaller treatments according to new research from the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Orlando. RTOG, an NCI-funded national clinical trials group, is a clinical research component of the American College of Radiology (ACR).

RTOG researchers previously reported that breast and prostate cancer patients with painful bone metastases who received a single radiotherapy treatment of 8 Gy had the same pain...

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