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Brain Metastasis
New brain metastasis data have been reported by C. Nieder and co-authors
January 6th, 2009
"The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of the new Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA) index, which was recently developed from data in the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) database, in patients treated with surgical resection of brain metastases and postoperative whole-brain radiotherapy. The authors analyzed 64 patients and assigned each patient to each of the four indices previously evaluated by the RTOG (recursive partitioning analysis class," investigators in Norway report. "Score Index for Radiosurgery, Basic Score for Brain Metastases and GPA). The present data confirm the validity of the scoring systems in surgically treated patients....
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-06)
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