Prophylactic cranial irradiation in extensive disease small-cell lung cancer: short-term health-related quality of life and patient reported symptoms: results of an international Phase III randomized controlled trial by the EORTC Radiation Oncology and Lung Cancer Groups.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on December 01, 2008

Authors

Berend J Slotman1, Murielle E Mauer, Andrew Bottomley, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Gijs W P M Kramer, Elaine M Rankin, Michael Snee, Matthew Hatton, Pieter E Postmus, Laurence Collette, Suresh Senan

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. bj.slotman@vumc.nl

Associated clinical trials:

Radiation Therapy to Prevent Brain Metastases in Patients With Previously Treated Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer | NCT00016211

Phase II Trial of Conventional Versus IMRT Whole Brain Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases | NCT01890278

Radiation- Induced Alopecia in Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy to the Brain | NCT03543020

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