Nothing ventured, nothing gained: Treatment of glioblastoma multiforme in the elderly

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1540-1541

  Shaw, Edward G ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; LOMUSTINE; PROCARBAZINE; PROCARBAZINE PLUS LOMUSTINE PLUS VINCRISTINE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; EDITORIAL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; AGE; AGED; BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442654311     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.01.989     Document Type: Editorial

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