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This chapter discusses the general management of patients with bone and spine tumors, with special focus on principles that guide radiotherapy and radiosurgery management. Several key components of trimodality care and palliative care are discussed.

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  1. Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Daniel M. Trifiletti

  2. Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, PA, USA

    Nicholas G. Zaorsky

  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Daniel E. Spratt

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Trifiletti, D.M., Zaorsky, N.G., Spratt, D.E. (2019). Bone/Spine Cancers. In: Trifiletti, D., Zaorsky, N. (eds) Absolute Clinical Radiation Oncology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96809-4_12

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