Twice-daily prophylactic cranial irradiation for patients with limited disease small-cell lung cancer with complete response to chemotherapy and consolidative radiotherapy: Report of a single institutional phase II trial

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 290-295

  Wolfson, Aaron H ^a,b   Bains, Yadvindera ^a   Lu, Jiade ^a   Etuk, Blessing ^a   Sridhar, Kasi ^a   Raub, William ^a   Markoe, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system toxicity; Chemoirradiation; Prophylactic cranial irradiation; SCLC

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN PROTECTION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034994380     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000421-200106000-00017     Document Type: Article

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