A new survival score for patients with brain metastases who received whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) alone

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-127

  Rades, Dirk ^a,b   Dziggel, Liesa ^a   Nagy, Viorica ^c   Šegedin, Barbara ^d   Lohynska, Radka ^e   Veninga, Theo ^f   Khoa, Mai T ^g,h   Trang, Ngo T ^h   Schild, Steven E ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c THE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE PROF DR ION CHIRICUTA   (Romania)

^d INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^g HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^h BACH MAI HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

ⁱ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Prognostic score; Survival; Validation; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN METASTASES; PROGNOSTIC SCORE; SURVIVAL; VALIDATION; WHOLE-BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84883160803     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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