Treatment and survival of patients harboring histological variants of glioblastoma

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1709-1713

  Ortega, Alicia ^a   Nuño, Miriam ^a   Walia, Sartaaj ^a   Mukherjee, Debraj ^a   Black, Keith L ^a   Patil, Chirag G ^a  

^a Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Giant cell glioblastoma; Glioblastoma; Gliosarcoma; Overall survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FACTUAL DATABASE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908499578     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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