Comparison of the effectiveness of "late" and "early" prophylactic cranial irradiation in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 315-319

  Sas Korczyńska, Beata ^a   Korzeniowski, Stanisław ^a   Wójcik, Ewa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Prophylactic cranial irradiation; Radiotherapy; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; C BANDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OBSERVATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIATION DOSE; SECOND CANCER; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954033217     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2088-3     Document Type: Article

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