Abstract
With approximately 50-70% of patients with advanced cancer developing bone metastases during the course of their disease, treatment of bone metastases depends on many factors including performance status, pathology, site of disease, and neurologic status [1]. Radiotherapy has become highly precise, improving local control and facilitating minimally invasive treatment, and has attracted attention as a curative treatment method comparable to surgery. On the other hand, radiotherapy also plays an extremely important role in palliative treatment for advanced cancer patients [2]. Palliative care and treatment is aimed at providing relief from pain and other symptoms. Curative and palliative radiotherapies differ in the radiation field size, dose fraction, and treatment schedule. We review the role of radiotherapy in palliative treatment for patients with symptomatic bone metastases.
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