Cargando…

Additional radiation boost to whole brain radiation therapy may improve the survival of patients with brain metastases in small cell lung cancer

BACKGROUND: The role of the dose escalation strategy in brain radiotherapy for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients with brain metastases (BMs) has not been identified. This study aims to determine whether an additional radiation boost to whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) has beneficial effects...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sun, Han, Xu, Liming, Wang, Youyou, Zhao, Junhua, Xu, Kunpeng, Qi, Jing, Yuan, Zhiyong, Zhao, Lujun, Wang, Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6299519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30563554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-018-1198-4