Comparison of clinical outcomes of surgery followed by local brain radiotherapy and surgery followed by whole brain radiotherapy in patients with single brain metastasis: Single-Center retrospective analysis

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hashimoto, Kenji ^a   Narita, Yoshitaka ^a   Miyakita, Yasuji ^a   Ohno, Makoto ^a   Sumi, Minako ^a   Mayahara, Hiroshi ^a   Kayama, Takamasa ^a   Shibui, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical outcomes; Local brain radiotherapy; Long term result; Single brain metastasis; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL OUTCOME; LOCAL BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY; LONG-TERM RESULT; SINGLE BRAIN METASTASIS; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

PATHOLOGY; SURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOCAL BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80255137118     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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