Salvage therapy after postoperative chemotherapy for primary brain tumors in infants and very young children

Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 566-574

  Fisher, Paul G ^a   Needle, Michael N ^b   Cnaan, Avital ^b   Zhao, Huaqing ^b   Geyer, J Russell ^b   Molloy, Patricia T ^b   Goldwein, Joel W ^c   Herman Liu, Alisa B ^b   Phillips, Peter C ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain neoplasms; Chemotherapy; Infant; Radiotherapy; Salvage therapy; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORMETHINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; INFANT; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032147088     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980801)83:3<566::AID-CNCR27>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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