Efficacy of prophylactic cranial irradiation in patients with limited-disease small-cell lung cancer who were confirmed to have no brain metastasis via magnetic resonance imaging after initial chemoradiotherapy

BACKGROUND: Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is recommended for patients with limited-disease small-cell lung cancer (LD-SCLC) who achieved good response to definitive chemoradiotherapy. However, most clinical studies lacked brain imaging scans before PCI. Our study aimed to investigate whethe...

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Autores principales: Mamesaya, Nobuaki, Wakuda, Kazushige, Omae, Katsuhiro, Miyawaki, Eriko, Kotake, Mie, Fujiwara, Takumi, Kawamura, Takahisa, Kobayashi, Haruki, Nakashima, Kazuhisa, Omori, Shota, Ono, Akira, Kenmotsu, Hirotsugu, Naito, Tateaki, Murakami, Haruyasu, Mori, Keita, Harada, Hideyuki, Endo, Masahiro, Nakajima, Takashi, Takahashi, Toshiaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals LLC 2018
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5915147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29707139
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24830

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