Penn study shows the high costs of unnecessary radiation treatments for terminal cancer patients

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) For cancer patients dealing with the pain of tumors that have spread to their bones, doctors typically recommend palliative radiation. Though studies have demonstrated that patients with terminal cancer who receive a single session of radiotherapy get just as much pain relief as those who receive multiple treatments, this so-called single-fraction treatment has yet to be adopted in routine practice, according to researchers from the Perelman School...