Treatment and outcome of brain metastasis as first site of distant metastasis from breast cancer

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-167

  Boogerd, W ^a   Hart, A A M ^a   Tjahja, I S ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Breast cancer; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030807672     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005818323996     Document Type: Article

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