A review of bone metastasis and its treatments, with a special emphasis on local and systemic radiotherapy
Background: Bone is one of the most common sites of metastatic disease in malignancies. Many of the cases are asymptomatic and may be diagnosed in primary or secondary follow-up, but in symptomatic cases pain is the prominent symptom which is mostly exaggerated at nights. The improved survival of ca...
Main Authors: | Peiman Haddad, Afsaneh Maddah Safaei, Armaghan Fard Esfahani |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | fas |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2014-01-01
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Series: | Tehran University Medical Journal |
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Online Access: | http://tumj.tums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-25-5153&slc_lang=en&sid=1 |
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