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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"palliative radiotherapy"”.
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Advanced breast cancer: A retrospective review comparing two palliative radiotherapy protocols used at Groote Schuur Hospital between 2010 and 2013
… (OS) and acute effects of the two breast palliative regimes used in patients with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer between 2010 and 2013 in a single institution. Methods: Compliance to treatment, acute skin reactions, progression free and overall survival were retrospectively …
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A Fully-Automated, Deep Learning-Based Framework For Ct-Based Localization, Segmentation, Verification and Planning of Metastatic Vertebrae
<p>Palliative radiotherapy is an effective treatment for the palliation of symptoms caused by vertebral metastases. Visible evidence of disease is localized on medical images as part of the treatment planning process. However, complicating factors such as time pressures, anatomic variants in the …
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Effectiveness of palliative measures in treatment of dysphagia of cancer of the oesophagus
… occurrence of metastasis at presentation. The palliative care team focused their attention on measures to solve the cardinal symptom of this disease, which in most cases was dysphagia. This was also the main determinant of quality of life for these patients. Therefore, the primary objective of …
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Dysphagia progression-free survival in patients with locally advanced and metastatic oesophageal cancer receiving palliative radiation therapy
… with advanced oesophageal carcinoma treated with palliative radiotherapy (RT). Methods: The medical records of all patients with oesophageal carcinoma presenting to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town between January 2015-December 2016 were reviewed and patients who were not candidates for curative …