The impact of radiation treatment planning technique on unplanned hospital admissions.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Treatment burdens and toxicities related to palliative radiation therapy (RT) may lead to unplanned hospital admissions (UHAs). The likelihood for these toxicities may be related to treatment technique. We compared rates of UHA between patients receiving nonconformal (2-dimensional) and conformal (3-dimensional or higher) radiation treatments to bone metastases involving the vertebral column.

Methods and materials

We retrospectively analyzed patients treated with RT for bone metastases at a single tertiary care center between 2010 and 2017. We compared rates of RT-related UHA within 90 days of receiving radiation using Cox competing risk regression models.

Results

We identified 326 patients with bone metastases involving the vertebral column, 139 of whom recei

SUBMITTER: Chang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6200879 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature