Determining the incidence of pain flare following palliative radiotherapy for symptomatic bone metastases: results from three canadian cancer centers.

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Radiation Oncology · Stony Brook University School of Medicine

I do not use prophylactic steroids for spine radiosurgery. I indeed start tapering steroids from the time of consultation if the patient was already on steroids. After radiosurgery of spinal cord compression, I start tapering on the day of radiosurgery.Pain flair seems to occur in 10-20% of patients...