BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The 30-day expected mortality rate is frequently used as
a metric to determine which patients benefit from palliative radiation treatment (RT). We …

Abstract Background: 30-day mortality (30DM) has been suggested as a clinical indicator of
the avoidance of harm in palliative radiotherapy within the NHS, but no large-scale …

Background The expected 30-day mortality rate for patients treated with palliative radiation
is not established. The primary objective of this study is to define the proportion of patients …

Thirty-day expected mortality and hemostatic palliative radiotherapy: definitions, certainties
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Answer questions and earn CME/CNE When delivered with palliative intent, radiotherapy
can help to alleviate a multitude of symptoms related to advanced cancer. In general, time to …

Purpose To investigate the utilization of palliative radiation therapy (RT), predictors for the
use of RT, and symptom palliation following RT during the last 30 days of life through …

Physician estimates of patients' survival times have historically been inaccurate. In
particular, physicians have often been overly optimistic in their predictions. Our review …

Background Recently, the palliative appropriateness criteria (PAC) score, a novel metric to
aid clinical decision-making between different palliative radiotherapy fractionation regimens …

The value of radiotherapy for palliation is well known to oncologists but not necessarily to
other physicians. Using terms such as symptom improvement ratio (SIR) and number …

Objective: We set out to review the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (rrrp). Methods:
We retrospectively reviewed a prospective database of patients referred to the rrrp between …