Extracranial Palliative Radiation Therapy for Renal Cell Carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Symptom management is an integral component of care for patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We evaluated the efficacy of radiation therapy (RT) and factors influencing symptom in an ethnically diverse patient population.

Methods and materials

An institutional review board-approved retrospective review was conducted of patients with symptomatic extracranial RCC metastases treated with RT between 2011 and 2022 at a tertiary referral center. Symptoms were categorized as pain, neurologic (paresthesia or weakness), respiratory (dyspnea, hemoptysis, or cough) and gastrointestinal/genitourinary (GI/GU) bleeding. Time to symptom alleviation was measured from the start of RT and assessed during-treatment and follow-up visits. Descriptive and survival analyses were perfo

SUBMITTER: Kwon YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12446645 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature