A boost in addition to whole-brain radiotherapy improves patient outcome after resection of 1 or 2 brain metastases in recursive partitioning analysis class 1 and 2 patients

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1551-1559

  Rades, Dirk ^a,e   Pluemer, Andre ^b   Veninga, Theo ^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 metastasis; Extent of surgical resection; Radiation boost; Recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) class; Surgical resection; Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648827370     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22960     Document Type: Article

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