Prophylactic cranial irradiation in breast cancer: A new way forward
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Prophylactic cranial irradiation in advanced breast cancer: a case for caution.
PURPOSE Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) has a well-recognized role in the treatment of leukemia and small-cell lung cancer. Clinical utility has yet to be determined for breast cancer, where an emerging group at high risk of brain metastasis has fuelled consideration of PCI. METHODS AND MATERIALS In reviewing our experience with PCI as part of a complex protocol for advanced breast can...
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0971-5851
DOI: 10.4103/0971-5851.158822