Lead investigator Grant Hunter, MD, a fifth-year radiation oncology resident at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and researchers tested 110 patients. Thirty-four underwent CRT and 76 underwent SBRT. Pain relief was seen in 68 percent of patients for CRT and 62 percent for SBRT. The median time to pain relief was 2.4 weeks for CRT and 4.8 weeks for SBRT. The median duration of pain relief was 1.7 months for CRT and 4.8 months for SBRT.
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