Improving survival of medulloblastoma: Results in two groups of patients

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-42

  Giralt, Jordi ^a   De Toledo, Josep Sánchez ^a   Moraga, Fernando ^a   Poch, José M ^a   Gallego, Soledad ^a   Roselló, José ^a   Maldonado, Xavier ^a   Prats, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Medulloblastoma; Primitive neuroectodermal tumor; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; FOLINATE CALCIUM; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030027248     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227532     Document Type: Article

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