Outcome and prognostic factors of radiation therapy for medulloblastoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Rieken, Stefan ^a   Mohr, Angela ^a   Habermehl, Daniel ^a   Welzel, Thomas ^a   Lindel, Katja ^a   Witt, Olaf ^a   Kulozik, Andreas E ^a   Wick, Wolfgang ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Combs, Stephanie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Craniospinal irradiation; Medulloblastoma; Prognostic factors; Radiochemotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT POPULATIONS; CLINICAL STUDY; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; HEIDELBERG; KAPLAN-MEIER METHOD; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOMES; TUMOR RESECTION;

BRAIN; CHEMOTHERAPY; HISTOLOGY; IRRADIATION; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053580897     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.12.042     Document Type: Article

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