Palliative-Setting Radiotherapy in Contemporary Cancer Care
A special issue of Current Oncology (ISSN 1718-7729). This special issue belongs to the section "Palliative and Supportive Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 588
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
Interests: palliative radiotherapy; brachytherapy; gynecological cancer; breast cancer; outcomes research; quality improvement; cancer health systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Palliative radiotherapy (RT) is integral to the care of Oncology patients, traditionally addressing burdensome symptoms or evolving functional compromise, including in emergent care. Often framed for settings where disease is too extensive to cure, RT has also found application among the growing population of patients living with chronic advanced cancer.
For this Special Issue, we invite contributions addressing RT along the spectrum of palliative settings, as part of the following:
- A symptom support strategy when no further cancer-directed therapy is planned;
- Prehabilitation/rehabilitation programming in metastatic or recurrent cancer;
- A management approach that aspires to achieve durable disease control even when cancer is no longer confined.
Please share insights and outcomes relating to:
- Integration of RT as part of modern multimodality approaches to symptom control;
- Best practices to facilitate high-quality RT or mitigate side effects in palliative settings;
- Personalization and shared decision-making for palliative RT;
- Palliative RT considerations for special populations;
- Sequencing (or deferral) of RT with novel systemic agents in biomarker-driven care;
- Multiple and/or repeat courses of RT in complex palliative settings;
- Harnessing new technologies for better palliative-setting RT, including artificial intelligence;
- Technical choices in delivery of palliative-setting RT, including brachytherapy and SBRT;
- Services designed to resource contexts and needs, including team-based models of RT care;
- Educational initiatives in palliative-setting RT, communities of practice and learning.
Original research articles and reviews are especially sought, but all submissions will be considered.
Looking forward to your contributions.
Dr. Fleur Huang
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- palliative radiotherapy
- symptom control
- oligorecurrence or oligoprogression
- re-irradiation
- advanced cancer
- metastases
- quality of life
- patient-reported outcomes
