Medical oncology: Patients with brain metastases in early-phase trials

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 390-391

  Marko, Nicholas F ^a   Weil, Robert J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADVANCED CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL TIME; WHOLE BRAIN RADIATION THERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY;

EID: 79959966875     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2011.73     Document Type: Review

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