Outcomes of patients receiving urgent palliative radiotherapy for advanced lung cancer: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is considerable variability in the management of patients with advanced lung cancer referred for palliative radiotherapy owing to uncertainties in prognosis and the benefit of treatment. This study presents the outcomes of patients seen in the Fast Track Lung Clinic, an urgent access palliative radiotherapy clinic, and aims to identify factors associated with treatment response and survival.

Methods

Consecutive patients with advanced lung cancer seen in the Fast Track Lung Clinic between January 2014 and July 2020 were included. Patients who underwent radiotherapy were contacted beginning 30 days after radiotherapy to evaluate treatment response. Cluster bootstraps were used to compute confidence intervals for treatment response rate. Prognostic factors for

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11663318 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature