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Does radiation improve bone health and allow for healing of a pathological fracture in a patient with multiple myeloma refusing surgery?

What is the best evidence to support or refute this?
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Radiation Oncology · Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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Radiation for myeloma lesions does allow for recalcification of lytic lesions about 50% of the time. There is a suggestion that higher doses increases the degree of recalcification (increasing doses from 20 Gy to 30 Gy increased recalcification by 12% according to Matuschek C et al. Radiat Oncol. 20...

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