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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
27
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-1-13
pubmed:abstractText
In a large number of cancer patients, extensive skeletal metastases or myelomatosis induce vast suffering, such as intolerable pain and local complications of neoplastic bone destruction. Analgetic drugs frequently do not yield sufficient palliation. Irradiation of local fields often has to be repeated, because of tumour growth outside previously irradiated volumes. Wide field irradiation of the lower or upper half of the body causes significant relief of pain in most patients. Adequate pretreatment handling of patients, method of irradiation, and follow-up are of marked importance to reduce side effects, and are described as they are carried out at the Department of Oncology, Haukeland Hospital.
pubmed:language
nor
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0029-2001
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
112
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3446-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-7-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
[Half-body irradiation. An effective palliative treatment of widespread skeletal metastases].
pubmed:affiliation
Onkologisk avdeling, Haukeland sykehus, Bergen.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract