Efficacy and cost-effectiveness analysis of external beam and stereotactic body radiation therapy in the treatment of spine metastases: A matched-pair analysis - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 537-542

  Haley, Marsha L ^a,b   Gerszten, Peter C ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Chang, Yue Fang ^a   Atteberry, Dave S ^a   Burton, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Altoona Regional Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

External beam radiation therapy; Matched pair analysis; Outcome; Stereotactic body radiation therapy; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYBERKNIFE; ESOPHAGITIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RADIOSURGERY; SPINE METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953878458     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.12.SPINE10233     Document Type: Article

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