Outcomes after whole brain reirradiation in patients with brain metastases

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Son, Christina H ^a   Jimenez, Rachel ^b   Niemierko, Andrzej ^b   Loeffler, Jay S ^b   Oh, Kevin S ^b   Shih, Helen A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Reirradiation; Retreatment; Whole brain radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

AFTER INITIATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXTRACRANIAL DISEASE; FRACTION SIZE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDIAN SURVIVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; OVERALL SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REIRRADIATION; RETREATMENT; SIDE EFFECT; WHOLE-BRAIN RADIATION;

BRAIN; HOSPITALS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN IRRITATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; WHOLE BRAIN IRRADIATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETREATMENT; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855840286     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.020     Document Type: Article

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