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
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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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author Ota, Norichika
Adachi, Akiko
Oike, Takahiro
Hisatake, Yuta
Higashizawa, Toshihiko
Teramoto, Ken
Okamura, Yukishige
Ohno, Tatsuya
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Adachi, Akiko
Oike, Takahiro
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Higashizawa, Toshihiko
Teramoto, Ken
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description 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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spelling pubmed-99131882023-02-13 Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients Ota, Norichika Adachi, Akiko Oike, Takahiro Hisatake, Yuta Higashizawa, Toshihiko Teramoto, Ken Okamura, Yukishige Ohno, Tatsuya Clin Case Rep Case Report 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9913188/ /pubmed/36789299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6955 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Ota, Norichika
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Hisatake, Yuta
Higashizawa, Toshihiko
Teramoto, Ken
Okamura, Yukishige
Ohno, Tatsuya
Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients
title Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients
title_full Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients
title_fullStr Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients
title_full_unstemmed Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients
title_short Palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: A case series of seven patients
title_sort palliative radiation therapy for bleeding from gastric cancer: a case series of seven patients
topic Case Report
url 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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