Efficacy of palliative radiotherapy for gastric bleeding in patients with unresectable advanced gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Bleeding negatively impacts quality of life in patients with unresectable advanced gastric cancer and has the potential to be lethal. When blood transfusion and endoscopic hemostasis are unsuccessful to stop bleeding, radiation to stomach is selected in patients with unsuitable condition...

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Published in:BMC Palliat Care
Main Authors: Kondoh, Chihiro, Shitara, Kohei, Nomura, Motoo, Takahari, Daisuke, Ura, Takashi, Tachibana, Hiroyuki, Tomita, Natsuo, Kodaira, Takeshi, Muro, Kei
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524128/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26238344
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-015-0034-y
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