Brain metastases as isolated site of relapse in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer previously treated with platinum and paclitaxel-based chemotherapy

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 994-999

  Kastritis, E ^a   Efstathiou, E ^a   Gika, D ^a   Bozas, G ^a   Koutsoukou, V ^a   Papadimitriou, C ^a   Pissakas, G ^b   Dimopoulos, M A ^a   Bamias, A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Ovarian cancer; Paclitaxel; Platinum

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PACLITAXEL; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33745076167     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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