Brain: The common site of relapse in patients with pancoast or superior sulcus tumors

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1020-1022

  Shah, Hemangini ^a,b   Anker, Christopher J ^a   Bogart, Jeffery ^a   Graziano, Stephen ^a   Shah, Chirag M ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Pancoast tumor; Superior sulcus tumor

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; PACLITAXEL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PANCOAST TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LUNG; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCOAST'S SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247895653     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01243894-200611000-00016     Document Type: Article

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