Potential toxicities of prophylactic cranial irradiation

Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) with total doses of 20-30 Gy reduces the incidence of brain metastasis (BM) and increases survival of patients with limited and extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) that showed any response to chemotherapy. PCI is currently not applied in non-small-c...

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Published in:Transl Lung Cancer Res
Main Authors: Giordano, Frank A., Welzel, Grit, Abo-Madyan, Yasser, Wenz, Frederik
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Pioneer Bioscience Publishing Company 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367548/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25806190
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3978/j.issn.2218-6751.2012.10.03
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