Prophylactic cranial irradiation: Advantages and disadvantages
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Models support prophylactic cranial irradiation.
In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Lee et al present a rather unique and useful statistical interpretation of the waxing question of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) for patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). The concept of PCI for SCLC has its origins in the comparison of the behavior of this disease with childhood leukemia, a disease that is essentially systemic in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/3.suppl_3.s51