Prophylactic cranial irradiation for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer with response to chemoradiation

Clinical Lung Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-44

  Tai, Patricia ^a   Assouline, Avi ^b   Joseph, Kurian ^c   Stitt, Larry ^d   Yu, Edward ^e  

^a Allan Blair Cancer Centre   (Canada)

^b Centre Clinique de la Porte de Saint Cloud   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Lung cancer; Metastasis; Radiotherapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL IRRADIATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871571728     PISSN: 15257304     EISSN: 19380690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cllc.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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