Standardizing prescribing practices for single-fraction radiation therapy (SFRT) for palliation of bone metastases could lead to cost savings and improvement in patients’ quality of life, according to ...

A study has been conducted to determine whether single-fraction radiation treatment, shown to be as effective as multiple-fraction treatment with less potential for harm, has been incorporated into ...

Gamma Gap: A Point-of-Care Test That Correlates With Disease Burden and Treatment Response in Multiple Myeloma A total of 12,221 patients (median age, 75.6 years; 40.9% women, 87.6% white) were ...

San Francisco, September 15, 2014—A prospective study that compared patient-reported outcomes of a broad set of cancer patients with bone metastases demonstrates that single fraction radiation therapy ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The first ever "real world" study of palliative radiotherapy for uncomplicated bone metastases has confirmed that single-fraction radiotherapy (RT) is just as good at relieving pain ...

Outcomes and toxicity for hypofractionated and single-fraction image-guided stereotactic radiosurgery for sarcoma metastatic to the spine. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual ...

In spite of evidence showing that radiotherapy delivered in a single faction is as effective as that delivered in multiple fractions for the relief of pain from uncomplicated bone metastases in cancer ...