Treatment of five or more brain metastases with stereotactic radiosurgery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1394-1398

  Hunter, Grant K ^a   Suh, John H ^a   Reuther, Alwyn M ^a   Vogelbaum, Michael A ^b   Barnett, Gene H ^b   Angelov, Lilyana ^b   Weil, Robert J ^b   Neyman, Gennady ^a   Chao, Samuel T ^a  

^a Rose Ella Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neuro Oncology Center   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Multiple brain metastases; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN LESIONS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATES; METASTATIC CANCERS; MULTIPLE BRAINS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELANOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84863614589     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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