Whole brain radiation therapy with or without stereotactic radiosurgery boost for patients with one to three brain metastases: Phase III results of the RTOG 9508 randomised trial

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9422, 2004, Pages 1665-1672

  Andrews, David W ^a,l   Scott, Charles B ^b   Sperduto, Paul W ^c   Flanders, Adam E ^a   Gaspar, Laurie E ^g   Schell, Michael C ^d   Werner Wasik, Maria ^a   Demas, William ^e   Ryu, Janice ^f   Bahary, Jean Paul ^h   Souhami, Luis ⁱ   Rotman, Marvin ^j   Mehta, Minesh P ^k   Curran Jr , Walter J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^c Methodist Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e AKRON CITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^j SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^l THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442713678     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16250-8     Document Type: Article

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