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What criteria do you use for recommending palliative radiation in patients who are asymptomatic but have good performance status?

Does your dose-fractionation approach change in such cases?
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Radiation Oncology · University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
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There are a few circumstances for which we recommend radiation to asymptomatic patients with good performance status. Perhaps the most common situation is when a patient has a reasonably long life expectancy (at least >3 months) and the metastatic tumour has a high probability of causing morbidity o...

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