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High-Dose SBRT More Effective for Painful Spine Metastases – MedPage Today
Roughly one-third of patients had a complete pain response at 3 and 6 months
Two doses of palliative stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) were more likely to completely eliminate spinal pain in patients with metastatic cancer compared to conventional radiotherapy (CRT), a phase II/III trial found.
In the study of over 200 patients with painful spinal lesions, complete pain response at 3 months was significantly improved in patients who received SBRT compared to controls (35% vs 15%, P<0.001), which was sustained at 6 months (32% vs 16%, P=0.004), reported Arjun Sahgal,…
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