Clinical recommendations of DEGRO and AGO on preferred standard palliative radiotherapy of bone and cerebral metastases, metastatic spinal cord compression, and leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in breast cancer

Breast Care

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 401-407

  Souchon, Rainer ^a   Feyer, Petra ^b   Thomssen, Christoph ^c   Fehm, Tanja ^a   Diel, Ingo ^d   Nitz, Ulrike ^e   Janni, Wolfgang ^f   Bischoff, Joachim ^g   Sauer, Rolf ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d Center for Holistic Gynecology   (Germany)

^e Brustzentrum Niederrhein   (Germany)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone metastasis; Cerebral metastasis; Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis; Metastatic breast cancer; Metastatic spinal cord compression; Palliative radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYTARABINE; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; THIOTEPA;

ANALGESIA; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE METASTASIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 78650980450     PISSN: 16613791     EISSN: 16613805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322661     Document Type: Review

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