Long-term survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and synchronous brain metastasis treated with whole-brain radiotherapy and thoracic chemoradiation

BACKGROUND: Brain metastases occur in 30-50% of Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients and confer a worse prognosis and quality of life. These patients are usually treated with Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) followed by systemic therapy. Few studies have evaluated the role of chemoradiotherapy...

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Autores principales: Arrieta, Oscar, Villarreal-Garza, Cynthia, Zamora, Jesús, Blake-Cerda, Mónika, de la Mata, María D, Zavala, Diego G, Muñiz-Hernández, Saé, de la Garza, Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3235073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22118497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-6-166

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3235073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22118497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-6-166

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