Prophylactic cranial irradiation in small cell lung cancer

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 355-372

  Le Péchoux, Cécile ^a   Arriagada, Rodrigo ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b Instituto de Radiomedicina Santiago   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; NITROSOUREA DERIVATIVE; PROCARBAZINE;

ALOPECIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATAXIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEPRESSION; ENDARTERITIS; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; MICROANGIOPATHY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKULL IRRADIATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISUAL DISORDER;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1942471657     PISSN: 08898588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hoc.2003.12.004     Document Type: Review

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