Clinical analysis of Novalis stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-251

  Gu, Hae Won ^a   Sohn, Moon Jun ^a   Lee, Dong Joon ^a   Lee, Hye Ran ^a   Lee, Chae Heuck ^a   Whang, C Jin ^a  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Novalis system; Outcome evaluation; Prognostic factors; RPA classification; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIFESPAN; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 73249119727     PISSN: 20053711     EISSN: 15987876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3340/jkns.2009.46.3.245     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Adler JR, Cox RS, Kaplan I, Martin DP : Stereotactic radiosurgical treatment of brain metastases. J Neurosurg 76 : 444-449, 1992
2. Chen JC, Petrovich Z, Giannotta SL, Yu C, Apuzzo ML : Radiosurgical salvage therapy for patients presenting with recurrence of metastatic disease to the brain. Neurosurgery 46 : 860-866; discussion 866-867, 2000
3. Chen JC, Petrovich Z, O'day S, Morton D, Essner R, Giannotta SL, et al. : Stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of metastatic disease to the brain. Neurosurgery 47 : 268-279; discussion 279-281, 2000
4. Chidel MA, Suh JH, Reddy CA, Chao ST, Lundbeck MF, Barnett GH : Application of recursive partitioning analysis and evaluation of the use of whole brain radiation among patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery for newly diagnosed brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 47 : 993-999, 2000
5. Coia LR : The role of radiation therapy in the treatment of brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 23 : 229-238, 1992
6. DeAngelis LM, Delattre JY, Posner JB : Radiation-induced dementia in patients cured of brain metastases. Neurology 39 : 789-796, 1989
7. Deinsberger R, Tidstrand J : LINAC Radiosurgery as single treatment in cerebral metastases. J Neurooncol 76 : 77-83, 2006
8. Gaspar L, Scott C, Rotman M, Asbell S, Phillips T, Wasserman T, et al. : Recursive Partitioning analysis (RPA) of prognostic factors in three Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) brain metastases trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 37 : 745-751, 1997
9. Hasegawa T, Kondziolka D, Flickinger JC, Germanwala A, Lunsford LD : Brain metastases treated with radiosurgery alone : an alternative to whole brain radiotherapy? Neurosurgery 52 : 1318-1326; discussion 1326, 2003
10. Klein M, Taphoorn MJ, Heimans JJ, van der Ploeg HM, Vandertop WP, Smit EF, et al. : Neurobehavioral status and health-related quality of life in newly diagnosed high-grade glioma patients. J Clin Oncol 19 : 4037-4047, 2001
11. Kramer S : The hazards of therapeutic iradiation of the central nervous system. Clin Neurosurg 15 : 301-318, 1968
12. Laack NN, Brown PD : Cognitive sequelae of brain radiation in adults. Semin Oncol 31 : 702-713, 2004
13. Lang FF, Sawaya R : Surgical management of cerebral metastases. Neurosurg Clin N Am 7 : 459-484, 1996
14. Lavine SD, Petrovich Z, Cohen-Gadol AA, Masri LS, Morton DL, O'Day SJ, et al. : Gamma knife radiosurgery for metastatic melanoma : an analysis of survival, outcome, and complications. Neurosurgery 44 : 59-64; discussion 64-66, 1999
15. Lee HJ, Posner JB : Radiosurgery for metastases from malignant melanoma. Cancer J Sci Am 4 : 80-83, 1998
16. Lutterbach J, Cyron D, Henne K, Ostertag CB : Radiosurgery followed by planned observation in patients with one to three brain metastases. Neurosurgery 52 : 1066-1073; discussion 1073-1074, 2003
17. O'Neill BP, Iturria NJ, Link MJ, Pollock BE, Ballman KV, O'Fallon JR : A comparison of surgical resection and stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of solitary brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 55 : 1169-1176, 2003
18. Paek SH, Audu PB, Sperling MR, Cho J, Andrews DW : Reevaluation of surgery for the treatment of brain metastases : review of 208 patients with single of multiple brain metastases treated at one institution with modern neurosurgical techniques. Neurosurgery 56 : 1021-1034; discussion 1021-1034, 2005
19. Patchell RA, Tibbs PA, Walsh JW, Dempsey RJ, Maruyama Y, Kryscio RJ, et al. : A randomized trial of surgery in the treatment of single metastases to the brain. N Engl J Med 322 : 494-500, 1990
20. Petrovich Z, Yu C, Giannotta SL, O'Day S, Apuzzo ML : Survival and pattern of failure in brain metastasis treated with stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery. J Neurosurg 97 (5 Suppl) : 499-506, 2002
21. Phillips TL, Scott CB, Leibel SA, Rotman M, Weigensberg IJ : Results of a randomized comparison of radiotherapy and bromodeoxyuridine with radiotherapy alone for brain metastases : report of RTOG trial 89-05. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 33 : 339-348, 1995
22. Pollock BE: Management of Patients with Multiple Brain Metastases. Cont Neurosurg 21 : 1-6, 1999
23. Posner JB, Chernik NL : Intracranial metastases from systemic cancer. Adv Neurol 19 : 579-592, 1978
24. Rades D, Pluemer A, Veninga T, Hanssens P, Dunst J : Whole-brain radiotherapy versus stereotactic radiosurgery for patients in resursive partitioning analysis classes 1 and 2 with 1 to 3 brain metastases. Cancer 110 : 2285-2292, 2007
25. Schöggl A, Kitz K, Reddy M, Wolfsberger S, Schneider B, Dieckmann K, et al. : Defining the role of stereotactic radiosurgery versus microsurgery in the treatment of single brain metastases. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 142 : 621-626, 2000
26. Seung SK, Sneed PK, McDermott MW, Shu HK, Leong SP, Chang S, et al. : Gamma knife radiosurgery for malignant melanoma brain metastases. Cancer J Sci Am 4 : 103-109, 1998
27. Sneed PK, Lamborn KR, Forstner JM, McDermott MW, Chang S, Park E, et al. : Radiosurgery for brain metastases: is whole brain radiotherapy necessary? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 43 : 549-558, 1999
28. Sperduto P, Sneed P, Bhatt A, Schwer A, Fiveash J, Chiang V, et al. : A Multi-institutional Validation Study of a New Prognostic Indes (Graded Prognostic Assessment, GPA) for Patients with Brain Metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 70 : 510-514, 2008
29. Weissman DE : Glucocorticoid treatment for brain metastases and epidural spinal cord compression : a review. J Clin Oncol 6 : 543-551, 1988
30. Weltman E, Salvajoli JV, Brandt RA, de Morais Hanriot R, Prisco FE, Cruz JC, et al. : Radiosurgery for brain metastases : a score index for predicting prognosis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 46 : 1155-1161 , 2000
31. Yu C, Chen JC, Apuzzo ML, O'Day S, Giannotta SL, Weber JS, et al : Metastatic melanoma to the brain : prognostic factors after gamma knife radiosurgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 52 : 1277-1287, 2002