Why the study?
Does radiation therapy improve clinical symptoms in cancer patients with cardiac and pericardial metastases?
Population
38 cancer patients with cardiac and pericardial metastases presenting with symptoms such as tachycardia…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
up to 36 months
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for palliative radiation in cardiac metastases; prospective trials needed before practice change.
Does radiation therapy improve clinical symptoms in cancer patients with cardiac and pericardial metastases?
Radiation therapy provides clinical improvement in a majority of patients with cardiac and pericardial metastases, with varying durations of benefit depending on the primary tumor type.
Cham et al. (1975) studied this question.
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