Stereotactic radiosurgery alone versus resection plus whole-brain radiotherapy for 1 or 2 brain metastases in recursive partitioning analysis class 1 and 2 patients

Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2515-2521

  Rades, Dirk ^a,b,e   Bohlen, Guenther ^a   Pluemer, Andre ^b   Veninga, Theo ^c   Hanssens, Patrick ^c   Dunst, Juergen ^a   Schild, Steven E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Recursive partitioning analysis class; Resection; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250184652     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22729     Document Type: Article

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