The Efficacy of Conventionally Fractionated Radiation in the Management of Osseous Metastases from Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

Table 2

The effect of patient characteristics and treatment factors on outcomes.

Covariate	Initial pain response; p value	Pain recurrence; p value	Radiographic recurrence; p value
Age	0.02	0.32	0.95
Gender	0.51	0.47	0.23
Surgery	0.92	0.60	0.63
Concurrent treatment	0.65	0.15	0.24
Clear cell histology	0.75	0.007	0.25
Site	0.77	0.87	0.76
BED	0.46	0.10	0.35
Total dose	0.08	0.20	0.23
Initial pain response	N/A	N/A	0.032

Logistic regression was used for univariate analyses. BED indicates biological equivalent dose. Denotes significant p value .