How should we describe the benefits of palliative radiotherapy?

The value of radiotherapy for palliation is well known to oncologists but not necessarily to other physicians. Using terms such as symptom improvement ratio (sir) and number needed to treat (nnt) rather than traditional response rates might be more appropriate in describing the benefits of palliativ...

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Autores principales: Samant, R., Tucker, T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Multimed Inc. 2006
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3394609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22792023
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