Radiotherapy for oligometastatic disease in patients with spinal cord compression (MSCC) from relatively radioresistant tumors

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 218-223

  Freundt, Katja ^a   Meyners, Thekla ^a   Bajrovic, Amira ^b   Basic, Hiba ^c   Karstens, Johann H ^d   Adamietz, Irenaeus A ^e   Rudat, Volker ^f   Schild, Steven E ^g   Dunst, Juergen ^a   Rades, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose escalation; Metastatic spinal cord compression; Oligometastatic disease; Relatively radioresistant tumors; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; KIDNEY TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN TUMOR; SPINAL CORD TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77951638741     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2110-9     Document Type: Article

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