Whole lung irradiation in patients with exclusively pulmonary metastases of Ewing tumors: Toxicity analysis and treatment results of the EICESS-92 trial

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 193-197

  Bölling, Tobias ^a   Schuck, Andreas ^b   Paulussen, Michael ^c   Dirksen, Uta ^a   Ranft, Andreas ^a   Könemann, Stefan ^a   Dunst, Jürgen ^d   Willich, Normann ^a   Jürgens, Heribert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Radiotherapy Department   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ewing tumor; Outcome; Toxicity; Whole lung irradiation

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RADIATION DOSE; SIDE EFFECT; THORAX SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41949134602     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1810-x     Document Type: Article

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