Stereotactic radiosurgical treatment of brain metastases in older patients

Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 834-840

  Kim, Se Hyuk ^a,b   Weil, Robert J ^a   Chao, Samuel T ^a   Toms, Steven A ^a   Angelov, Lilyana ^a   Vogelbaum, Michael A ^a   Suh, John H ^a,b   Barnett, Gene H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Linear accelerator; Recursive partitioning analysis; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 50249143063     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23625     Document Type: Article

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