Treatment of patients with atypical meningiomas Simpson grade 4 and 5 with a carbon ion boost in combination with postoperative photon radiotherapy: The MARCIE Trial

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Combs, Stephanie E ^a   Edler, Lutz ^b   Burkholder, Iris ^c   Rieken, Stefan ^a   Habermehl, Daniel ^a   Jäkel, Oliver ^a   Haberer, Thomas ^a   Unterberg, Andreas ^a   Wick, Wolfgang ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Haselmann, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Heidelberger Ionenstrahl Therapiezentrum ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ION THERAPY; MENINGIOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHOTON THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROCESS DESIGN; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIOTHERAPY; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARBON; ION;

BIOPSY; CARBON; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IONS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649772073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-615     Document Type: Article

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