Clinical questions on rehabilitation in cancer patients with skeletal metastasis: a content analysis of the multidisciplinary tumor board records.

Nobuki YamanakaShinji TsukamotoYukako IshidaHideki ShigematsuMasatoshi HasegawaMarina SajikiTomoo ManoYasuhito TanakaAkira Kido

Published in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2020)

Regarding rehabilitation in patients with skeletal metastasis, we should pay attention to three parameters: occurrence of skeletal events, patient age, and growth speed of tumors. Rehabilitation-related questions may reflect patients' functional needs that occur more frequently in patients with pathological fractures or neurological symptoms, older patients, and patients with slow-growth tumors.

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