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Palliative Radiotherapy

Palliative Radiotherapy is a form of therapeutic radiation intervention categorized under clinical radiation oncology that is distinguished by its primary aim of alleviating disease-related symptoms and improving quality of life in patients with advanced or incurable malignancies, as opposed to achieving tumor eradication.

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Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus standard of care palliative treatment in patients with oligometastatic cancers (SABR-COMET): a randomised, phase 2, open-label trial

David A. Palma, Robert Olson, Stephen Harrow et al. · The Lancet · 2019 · 1.9K citations

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Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy with or without surgical resection for stage III non-small-cell lung cancer: a phase III randomised controlled trial

Kathy S. Albain, Ruth Swann, Valerie W. Rusch et al. · The Lancet · 2009 · 1.5K citations

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Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for the Comprehensive Treatment of Oligometastatic Cancers: Long-Term Results of the SABR-COMET Phase II Randomized Trial

David A. Palma, Robert Olson, Stephen Harrow et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2020 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Favourable and unfavourable effects on long-term survival of radiotherapy for early breast cancer: an overview of the randomised trials

The Lancet · 2000 · 1.2K citations

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The palliation of brain metastases: Final results of the first two studies by the radiation therapy oncology group

B.B. Borgelt, Richard D. Gelber, Simon Krämer et al. · International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics · 1980 · 957 citations

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Authors

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  1. EC
    Edward Chow

    Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Canada

    81 publications · 4.5K citations

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  2. CD
    Cyril Danjoux

    Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Canada

    47 publications · 2.2K citations

    29

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  3. EB
    Elizabeth Barnes

    Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Canada

    43 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. MT
    May Tsao

    Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Canada

    42 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. RW
    Rebecca Wong

    Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

    29 publications · 2.1K citations

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Institutions

2.1K

  1. Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

    Toronto, Canada

    41 h-index

    704 publications

    32.1K citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    41 h-index

    491 publications

    23K citations

  3. Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

    Toronto, Canada

    40 h-index

    253 publications

    17.7K citations

  4. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, United States

    33 h-index

    201 publications

    15.5K citations

  5. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, United States

    30 h-index

    235 publications

    23K citations

  6. Health Sciences Centre

    Winnipeg, Canada

    26 h-index

    412 publications

    18.4K citations

  7. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

    Melbourne, Australia

    24 h-index

    139 publications

    5.4K citations

  8. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, United States

    24 h-index

    134 publications

    11.7K citations

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  2. Radiotherapy and Oncology

    118 publications · 7.5K citations

    47

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  3. Cancer

    74 publications · 5.1K citations

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  4. PubMed

    Repository · 144 publications · 4.1K citations

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  5. Clinical Oncology

    58 publications · 2.6K citations

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