Prognostic factors in a series of 504 breast cancer patients with metastatic spinal cord compression

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 340-345

  Rades, D ^a   Douglas, S ^a   Veninga, T ^b   Stalpers, L J A ^c   Bajrovic, A ^d   Rudat, V ^e   Schild, S E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Metastatic spinal cord compression; Prognostic factors; Radiotherapy; Treatment outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ANTIEMETICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862677612     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-0061-4     Document Type: Article

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