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## Purpose: The spine is the most common site of bone metastasis from cancer and can be divided into 5 locational subsections, varying in mobility. the purpose of this research was to determine if the mobility of the metastases-bearing vertebral segment influenced pre-treatment pain intensity or health-related quality of life (hr-qol) for patients about to receive palliative radiation therapy for painful spine metastasis. ## Methods: This study was a retrospective chart review of patients referred to the palliative radiation oncology program, about to receive radiation therapy for vertebral metastasis between january 2014 and june 2016. the main variables included patient-reported edmonton symptom assessment score pain intensity, the eq-5d score for hr-qol and the location of the vertebral metastasis (categorized using the sins mobility score (mobile, junctional, semi-rigid, or rigid)). various patient, disease and treatment characteristics were also collected, and entered into a multivariate analysis. ## Results: The eligible sample included 196 patients. spinal metastases were distributed with approximately equal frequency (~27%) between the junctional, mobile and semi-rigid spin

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Author

Devin Hindle; ZhiHui Amy Liu; Tara Rosewall

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)