Is short-course radiotherapy with high doses per fraction the appropriate regimen for metastatic spinal cord compression in colorectal cancer patients?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 708-712

  Rades, Dirk ^a,b,g   Dahm Daphi, Jochen ^b   Rudat, Volker ^c   Schulte, Rainer ^a   Stalpers, Lukas J A ^d   Veninga, Theo ^e   Hoskin, Peter J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^f MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Metastatic spinal cord compression; Overall treatment time; Radiobiology; Radiotherapy; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CELL SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHOTONS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845370089     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1578-9     Document Type: Article

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