Prognostic factors for local control and survival after radiotherapy of metastatic spinal cord compression

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3388-3393

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Fehlauer, Fabian ^b   Schulte, Rainer ^b   Veninga, Theo ^b   Stalpers, Lukas J A ^b   Basic, Hiba ^b   Bajrovic, Amira ^b   Hoskin, Peter J ^b   Tribius, Silke ^b   Wildfang, Ingeborg ^b   Rudat, Volker ^b   Engenhart Cabilic, Rita ^b   Karstens, Johann H ^b   Alberti, Winfried ^b   Dunst, Juergen ^b   Schild, Steven E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRA; VISCERAL METASTASIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746844654     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.05.0542     Document Type: Article

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