Short Survival Time after Palliative whole Brain Radiotherapy: Can We Predict Potential Overtreatment by Use of a Nomogram?

Background: Many patients with brain metastases undergoing whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) have very limited survival. The purpose of this study was to validate a nomogram derived from a large American database and to examine its ability to better predict short survival (cut-off 2 months) than previ...

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Autores principales: Nieder, Carsten, Norum, Jan, Hintz, Mandy, Grosu, Anca L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ivyspring International Publisher 2017
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5535707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28775771
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/jca.18600

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5535707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28775771
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/jca.18600

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