Role of radiotherapy in the treatment of supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors in childhood: Results of the Prospective German Brain Tumor Trials HIT 88/89 and 91

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 842-849

  Timmermann, Beate ^a   Kortmann, Rolf Dieter ^a   Kühl, Joachim ^a   Meisner, Christoph ^a   Dieckmann, Karin ^a   Pietsch, Torsten ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYTARABINE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; METHOTREXATE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IFOSFAMIDE; LOMUSTINE; MALE; METHOTREXATE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 0036468042     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.20.3.842     Document Type: Article

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