Table 1 Examples of urgent indications for palliative radiotherapy

▪ Spinal cord compression (actual or impending) and inoperable

▪ Symptomatic brain metastasis and inoperable

▪ Other lesions causing neurologic deficit

▪ Pulmonary lesion causing or threatening lung obstruction

▪ Bleeding (including hemoptysis, upper/lower gastrointestinal bleed, hematuria)

▪ Superior vena cava obstruction (actual or impending)

▪ Cancer-related pain, not adequately responding to analgesia

▪ Impending pathologic fracture