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Investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Publish New Data on Histology

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, June 20th, 2011

2011 JUN 20 -- In this recently published study, investigators in New York City, United States conducted a study "To report tumor local control after treatment with single-dose image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (SD-IGRT) to extracranial metastatic sites. A total of 126 metastases in 103 patients were treated with SD-IGRT to prescription doses of 18-24 Gy (median, 24 Cy) between 2004 and 2007."

"The overall actuarial local relapse free survival (LRFS) rate was 64% at a median follow-up of 18 months (range, 2-45 months). The median time to failure was 9.6 months (range, 1-23 months). On univariate analysis, LRFS was significantly correlated with...

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