Table III.

Pooled symptomatic response rates according to authors’ own definitions, at variable time points after palliative pelvic radiotherapy.

Symptom	Response*
Overall response, including “pelvic syndrome” [15,16,18,20,22–24,26,27,30, 31,33, 35–38] (specific symptom not indicated)¤	818/1084 = 75%
Pain [12–15,17,19,21,22,25,28,29,32,33]	437/561 = 78%
Bleeding and discharge [15,17,18,29,32,33]	251/308 = 81%
Mass and tenesmus [17,32,33]	65/91 = 71%
Other (diarrhea, nodules, dysuria, etc) [15,29]	26/32 = 72%

*Symptomatic responses are dichotomized as “response” or “no response”.

¤Williams’ 1949 study is not included in the table because the number of responses cannot be determined.