Top 10 Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Radiation Oncology. J Palliat Med 2018 Mar;21(3):383-388
Date
02/13/2018Pubmed ID
29431573Pubmed Central ID
PMC5915220DOI
10.1089/jpm.2018.0009Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85045425977 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 4 CitationsAbstract
As palliative care (PC) moves upstream in the course of advanced illness, it is critical that PC providers have a broad understanding of curative and palliative treatments for serious diseases. Possessing a working knowledge of radiation therapy (RT), one of the three pillars of cancer care, is crucial to PC providers given RT's role in both the curative and palliative settings. This article provides PC providers with a primer on the vocabulary of RT; the team of people involved in the planning of RT; and common indications, benefits, and side effects of treatment.
Author List
Dharmarajan KV, Rich SE, Johnstone CA, Hertan LM, Wei R, Colbert LE, Jones JA, Kamal AH, Jones CAAuthor
Candice A. Johnstone MD, MPH Professor in the Radiation Oncology department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
HumansNeoplasms
Palliative Care
Radiation Oncology