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Comparative Study
Metastatic spinal cord compression in patients with cancer of unknown primary. Estimating the survival prognosis with a validated score.
This study aimed to create and validate a survival score for patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) from cancer of unknown primary. ⋯ This survival score can be considered valid and reproducible, since the survival rates of the validation group were comparable to those of the test group. This score can help when selecting the individual treatment and when counseling patients and relatives.
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Historical Article
[Importance of Strahlentherapie und Onkologie for Swiss radiation oncology].
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Tight budgets and increasing competition for research funding pose challenges for highly specialized medical disciplines such as radiation oncology. Therefore, a systematic review was performed of successfully completed research that had a high impact on clinical practice. These data might be helpful when preparing new projects. ⋯ A large variety of clinical radiotherapy, biology, and physics topics achieved high numbers of citations. However, areas such as quality of life and side effects, palliative radiotherapy, and radiotherapy for nonmalignant disorders were underrepresented. Efforts to increase their visibility might be warranted.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
[Evaluation of time, attendance of medical staff, and resources during stereotactic radiotherapy/radiosurgery : QUIRO-DEGRO Trial].
The German Society of Radiation Oncology ("Deutsche Gesellschaft für Radioonkologie", DEGRO) initiated a multicenter trial to develop and evaluate adequate modules to assert core processes and subprocesses in radiotherapy. The aim of this prospective evaluation was to methodical assess the required resources (technical equipment and medical staff) for stereotactic radiotherapy/radiosurgery. ⋯ For the first time, the resource requirements for a radiotherapy department for the maintenance, protection and optimization of operational readiness for the application of intra- and extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy was determined methodically.