Thirty‐day mortality after palliative radiotherapy in advanced cancer patients: Optimizing end‐of‐life care in Asia
Mi Sun Kim,
Hyejung Cha,
Sei Hwan You
et al.
Abstract:IntroductionEvidence‐based guidelines recommend hypofractionated palliative radiotherapy (PRT); nonetheless, many patients receive prolonged course of PRT. To identify patients with limited benefits from PRT in end‐of‐life care, we evaluated the pattern of PRT at an Asian institution and factors associated with 30‐day mortality after PRT (30dM).MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed 228 patients who died after PRT in Yonsei Wonju Severance Christian hospital between October 2014 and March 2022. The associations be… Show more
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