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Practice patterns of palliative radiation therapy in pediatric oncology patients in an international pediatric research consortium

Background/Objectives: The practice of palliative radiation therapy (RT) is based on extrapolation from adult literature. We evaluated patterns of pediatric palliative RT to describe regimens used to identify opportunity for future pediatric-specific…

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Palliative radiation therapy for pediatric patients: Parental perceptions

Purpose/Objective(s): Palliative radiation therapy (pRT) for pediatric cancer patients is often used to treat pain, neurologic symptoms, and other conditions from progressive cancer that affects quality of life. However, though the doses used are…

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