About Palliative Radiotherapy
Palliative radiotherapy relieves symptoms from advanced cancer, such as bone pain, bleeding, pressure on nerves or blocked airways, using short, simple courses of treatment.
Many patients notice pain relief within days to weeks. It aims to improve comfort and quality of life rather than cure, with few side effects when short courses are used.
This page is general information, not medical advice. Fees, availability and outcomes vary by doctor and hospital.
Conditions Treated
Bone metastases
Brain metastases
Bleeding tumours
Spinal cord compression
Airway obstruction
Related Diseases
Painful bone metastases
Brain metastases
Superior vena cava obstruction
Metastatic spinal cord compression
Symptoms to Watch For
Bone pain
Bleeding
Neurological weakness
Breathlessness
Procedures & Treatments
Single-fraction radiotherapy
Short-course radiotherapy
Whole brain radiotherapy
Hemostatic radiotherapy