What criteria do you use for recommending palliative radiation in patients who are asymptomatic but have good performance status?
Does your dose-fractionation approach change in such cases?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
There are a few circumstances for which we recommend radiation to asymptomatic patients with good performance status. Perhaps the most common situation is when a patient has a reasonably long life expectancy (at least >3 months) and the metastatic tumour has a high probability of causing morbidit...