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Prophylactic dexamethasone effectively reduces the incidence of pain flare following spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT): a prospective observational study
The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of pain flare (PF) in patients receiving spine stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) treated with prophylactic oral dexamethasone (DEX) 1 h before and f...
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Role of stereotactic body radiotherapy for symptom control in head and neck cancer patients
Our aim was to determine the efficacy and quality of life outcomes of head and neck (HN) stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in a palliative population with significant proportions of de novo HN tumors not a...
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Fatigue scores in patients with brain metastases receiving whole brain radiotherapy
Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) is a treatment strategy used commonly to relieve burdensome symptoms and improve quality of life (QOL) in patients with multiple brain metastases. The purpose of this study is t...
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Symptom clusters in patients with brain metastases—a reanalysis comparing different statistical methods
The aim of this study was to examine whether symptom clusters identified among patients with brain metastases treated with whole brain irradiation were consistent using different statistical methods, and to de...
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Symptom clusters using the Spitzer quality of life index in patients with brain metastases—a reanalysis comparing different statistical methods
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the use of three different statistical methods influences the composition of symptom clusters derived from patients with brain metastases.
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Symptom clusters in patients with bone metastases—a reanalysis comparing different statistical methods
The aims of this study were to determine whether symptom clusters in patients with bone metastases varied when derived using three different statistical methods and to compare the presentation of symptom clust...
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Comparison of pain response and functional interference outcomes between spinal and non-spinal bone metastases treated with palliative radiotherapy
The purpose of this study was to compare functional interference and pain response outcomes using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) for patients treated with palliative radiotherapy to spine versus non-spine bone...
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Comparing baseline symptom severity and demographics over two time periods in an outpatient palliative radiotherapy clinic
The primary objective of this study was to compare the symptom severity in two different patient populations assessed in an outpatient palliative radiotherapy clinic over two time periods spanning 10 years. Th...
