The role of whole brain radiation therapy for the management of brain metastases in the era of stereotactic radiosurgery

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-84

  Abe, Eisuke ^a   Aoyama, Hidefumi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Neuro oncology; Radiosurgery; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL; OXYGEN; STEROID;

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITION; COMA; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PUBLICATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; STUPOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WHOLE BRAIN RADIATION THERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84857627533     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: 15346269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-011-0201-0     Document Type: Article

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