Primary brain tumors treated with steroids and radiotherapy: Low CD4 counts and risk of infection

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1423-1426

  Hughes, Michael A ^a   Parisi, Michele ^a   Grossman, Stuart ^a   Kleinberg, Lawrence ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CD4; Corticosteroids; Glioblastoma multiforme; Immunosuppression; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BLOOD; BRAIN; CELLS; CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; HEALTH RISKS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN TUMORS; HEADACHES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; STEROIDS DRUGS;

TUMORS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARMUSTINE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 22144485870     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.12.085     Document Type: Article

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