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Role of radiation therapy in the management of skin metastasis and bone pain in patients with carcinoma of the breast
Author(s) -
Murphy Walter T.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(196912)24:6<1331::aid-cncr2820240648>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , endocrine system , breast cancer , bone metastasis , metastasis , surgery , radiology , bone pain , cancer , hormone
Radiation therapy is an effective elective method of treating breast cancer patients with limited skin metastases and/or localized symptomatic or perilous bone metastases. When skin metastases occur in previously unirradiated skin and can be encompassed by a suitable treatment field, irradiation will be successful in the great majority of patients. If the skin metastases are rapidly spreading over a large area of the chest wall or have occurred in previously heavily irradiated skin, systemic endocrine control or chemotherapeutic methods should be used with irradiation reserved for more localized persistent lesions even if the skin had received previous irradiation. Bone metastases, especially the predominantly frequent osteolytic type, can be symptomatically relieved in most patients and adequately repaired in many patients by irradiation. At the present time, these patients also receive some type of endocrine control and/or chemotherapeutic management.