An eight-year survivor with multiple brain metastases of non-small cell lung cancer: An autopsy case

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1 B, 2006, Pages 605-609

  Kawamura, Hidemasa ^a   Nakayama, Yuko ^a   Ishikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Kiyozuka, Makoto ^b   Kitamoto, Yoshizumi ^a   Hasegawa, Masatoshi ^a   Hirato, Junko ^a   Niibe, Hideo ^a   Hayakawa, Kazushige ^c   Nakano, Takashi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain irradiation; Brain metastasis; NSCLC; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDIX CANCER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CECUM CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 32144438172     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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