Treatment of brain metastases in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by stereotactic linac-based radiosurgery: Prognostic factors

Lung Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-94

  Zabel, Angelika ^a   Milker Zabel, Stefanie ^b   Thilmann, Christoph ^a   Zuna, Ivan ^a   Rhein, Bernhard ^a   Wannenmacher, Michael ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Local control; NSCLC; Prognostic factors; Radiosurgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR GROWTH; BRAIN TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035985183     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(02)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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