Whole-brain radiotherapy versus stereotactic radiosurgery for patients in recursive partitioning analysis classes 1 and 2 with 1 to 3 brain metastases

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2285-2292

  Rades, Dirk ^a,e   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; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36049043417     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23037     Document Type: Article

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