Survival of patients with adult medulloblastoma
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Survival of patients with adult medulloblastoma: a population-based study.
BACKGROUND Adult medulloblastoma accounts for less than 1% of adult intracranial tumors. Previous survival studies have been inconclusive because of small sample sizes and patient ascertainment bias. METHODS The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 17 registries database, released April 2007, was used to assess survival rates and prognostic factors in this disease. SEER*Stat was...
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OPINION STATEMENT Approximately 70 % of newly diagnosed children with medulloblastoma (MB) will be classified as "standard risk": their tumor is localized to the posterior fossa, they undergo a near or gross total resection, the tumor does not meet the criteria for large cell/anaplastic histology, and there is no evidence of neuroaxis dissemination by brain/spine MRI and lumbar puncture for cyt...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23329