Patient-reported outcomes regarding radiation therapy in patients with multiple myeloma.
Conclusions: The use of palliative RT was associated with 5 times lower total symptom scores compared with nonuse. Similar beneficial results were found for several component scores. These patient-reported outcomes strongly suggest that providers should consider palliative radiation for symptomatic multiple myeloma patients. These data should be prospectively validated in a larger cohort of myeloma patients.
PMID: 32496846 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Oncologica - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Nanda R, Boulware D, Baz R, Portman D, Yu HM, Jim H, Johnstone PAS Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research