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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
Publisher:
BioMed Central
Journal:
BMC Cancer More from this journal
Volume:
12
Issue:
1
Article number:
530
Publication date:
2012-01-01
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1471-2407
ISSN:
1471-2407
Language:
English
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375499
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2013-11-16

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