Change in treatment strategy for intracranial germinoma: Long-term follow-up experience at a single institute

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2752-2762

  Chen, Yi Wei ^a,b   Huang, Pin I ^a,b   Ho, Donald Ming Tak ^a,b   Hu, Yu Wen ^b   Chang, Kai Ping ^b   Chiou, Shih Hwa ^a,b   Guo, Wan Yuo ^a,b   Chang, Feng Chi ^a,b   Liang, Muh Lii ^a,b   Lee, Yi Yen ^a,b   Chen, Hsin Hung ^a,b   Hsu, Ting Rong ^a,b   Lin, Shih Chieh ^a,b   Wong, Tai Tong ^a,b   Yen, Sang Hue ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

complication; craniospinal irradiation; germinoma; radiotherapy; whole ventricular irradiation

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCYTOPENIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84859869368     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26564     Document Type: Article

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