Browsing: Palliative

It’s 2023, so there are tech alternatives to standard workflows to explore when patients need rapid palliation. Beyond the obvious…

Intrafraction motion is of utmost concern during longer duration and high stakes radiation treatment (think spine radiosurgery), but this feasibility…

Top Line: Can more durable radiation doses be delivered even for high-grade malignant cord compression that cannot be surgically debulked?The…

This narrative piece beautifully describes how one diverse group comes together to process the death of a shared loved one.…

Artificial intelligence analyzed the language used in tens of thousands of initial oncology consult notes to accurately predict survival; words…

This dosimetric analysis demonstrates that carbon fiber implants (with similar density to bone) caused virtually no imaging artifacts and minimal…

December 15, 2022 FUN-eral. One of many ways this “expert” on the process of dying walked into hers fully informed…

Top Line: SC.24 showed that spine SBRT (24 Gy in 2 fractions) improves pain control and local control compared to…

Headline: Single-fraction celiac plexus radiosurgery for complex pain arising from adjacent gastrointestinal or retroperitoneal malignancies works. The Study: Kudos to…

What’s better than publications on predictors of vertebral compression fracture and pain flare following spine SBRT? An online calculator, of…