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Breast Cancer Prognosis
Researchers at Yale University, Department of Neurosurgery release new data on breast cancer prognosis
February 1st, 2007
Current study results from the report, "Prognostic factors for survival after stereotactic radiosurgery vary with the number of cerebral metastases," have been published. "Little is understood about the factors that influence survival in patients who undergo gamma-knife stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases. Demographic, disease, treatment, and survival data on 334 patients with intracranial metastases who underwent initial SRS from 1998 to 2004 were abstracted from treatment records and from the Connecticut Tumor Registry," scientists writing in the journal Cancer report. "Multivariate survival analysis was used to identify factors that...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2007-02-01)
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