Treatment outcome and prognostic factors of medulloblastoma

Treatment outcome and prognostic factors of medulloblastoma.

Medulloblastoma, once a tumor with a dismal prognosis, is one of the most common primary brain tumors of childhood. As the methods of treatment have been continuously refined, the outcome has improved remarkably during the last few decades. The outcome of 78 medulloblastoma patients, which were managed from 1972 to 1992 at the Department of Neurosurgery of Seoul National University Hospital, we...

etiology, significance, diagnosis and treatment of bruxiam

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Radiation Therapy for Desmoplastic Medulloblastoma - A Retrospective Analysis of Outcome and Prognostic Factors

Histopathological prognostic factors in medulloblastoma: high expression of survivin is related to unfavourable outcome.

Standard postoperative treatment of medulloblastoma consists of craniospinal irradiation and chemotherapy. Currently, only clinical factors are used for therapy stratification. To optimise treatment and patient outcome, biological prognostic markers are needed. In the present study we tested the prognostic influence of four histopathological parameters considered in recent publications as progn...

Treatment outcome and prognostic factors in non-metastatic esophageal carcinoma.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the therapeutic outcome and prognostic factors in patients with non-metastatic esophageal carcinoma. METHODS Between January 1989 and December 2003, 171 patients with non-metastatic esophageal carcinoma patients were retrospectively assessed in the Department of Radiation and Oncology, Institute of Oncology, Turkey. RESULTS The distribution of the stage at presentat...