Cranial irradiation for preventing brain metastases of small cell lung cancer in patients in complete remission

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2018, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Aupérin, Anne ^b  

^a Plateforme LNCC de Méta analyse en Oncologie et Service de Biostatistique et d'Epidemiologie ^*  (France)

^b Plateforme LNCC de Méta analyse en Oncologie et Service de Biostatistique et d'Epidemiologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTED ARTICLE; REVIEW; BRAIN TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMISSION; SECONDARY; SKULL IRRADIATION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85041666265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002805.pub2     Document Type: Review

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