Patterns of failure in children with medulloblastoma treated with 3D conformal radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-33

  Skowrońska Gardas, Anna ^a   Chojnacka, Marzanna ^a   Morawska Kaczyńska, Marzena ^a   Perek, Danuta ^b   Perek Polnik, Marta ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Children; Conformal radiotherapy; Medulloblastoma

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; LOMUSTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34447105197     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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