Linac radiosurgery versus whole brain radiotherapy for brain metastases: A survival comparison based on the RTOG recursive partitioning analysis

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 263-267

  Kocher, Martin ^a,b   Maarouf, Mohammad ^a   Bendel, Mark ^a   Voges, Juergen ^a   Müller, Rolf Peter ^a   Sturm, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral metastases; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442681663     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1180-y     Document Type: Article

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