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Fractionated radiosurgery for painful spinal metastases: DOSIS - a phase II trial.
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Background: One third of all cancer patients will develop bone metastases and the vertebral column is involved in approximately 70% of these patients. Conventional radiotherapy with of 1–10 fractions and total doses of 8-30 Gy is the current standard for painful vertebral metastases; however, the median pain response is short with 3–6 months and local tumor control is limited with these rather low irradiation doses. Recent advances in radiotherapy technology – intensity mo...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1471-2407-12-530
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- BioMed Central
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- BMC Cancer More from this journal
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- 12
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- 1
- Article number:
- 530
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
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1471-2407
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1471-2407
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English
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- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- © 2012 Guckenberger et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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