After radiotherapy do bone metastases from gastrointestinal cancers show response rates similar to those of bone metastases from other primary cancers?

摘要

PurposeReports investigating whether the response rates to palliative radiation therapy (rt) for painful bone metastases from gastrointestinal (gi) cancers are similar to rates for bone metastases from other primary cancer sites have been limited. The present study evaluated response rates for symptomatic bone metastases from gi cancers after palliative outpatient rt in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (rrrp).