The dandelion effect: Treat the whole lawn or weed selectively?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-124

  Mehta, Minesh ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79951996456     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.33.3294     Document Type: Editorial

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