Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients

The hemostatic effect of palliative radiation therapy (RT) for unresectable gastric cancer is unclear. We performed palliative RT (20 Gy in 5 fractions or 30 Gy in 10 fractions) in 7 consecutive patients with bleeding. The number of blood transfusions decreased significantly post‐RT, supporting the...

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Autores principales: Ota, Norichika, Adachi, Akiko, Oike, Takahiro, Hisatake, Yuta, Higashizawa, Toshihiko, Teramoto, Ken, Okamura, Yukishige, Ohno, Tatsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9913188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36789299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6955
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Sumario:The hemostatic effect of palliative radiation therapy (RT) for unresectable gastric cancer is unclear. We performed palliative RT (20 Gy in 5 fractions or 30 Gy in 10 fractions) in 7 consecutive patients with bleeding. The number of blood transfusions decreased significantly post‐RT, supporting the hemostatic effect of palliative RT.

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