Treatment of brain metastases from renal cell cancer

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-410

  Nieder, Carsten ^a,b   Spanne, Oddvar ^c   Nordøy, Tone ^c   Dalhaug, Astrid ^a  

^a NORDLAND HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Kidney cancer; Radiotherapy; Renal cell cancer; Sunitinib

Indexed keywords

SUNITINIB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959866893     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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