Whole brain radiotherapy for the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple brain metastases.

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Published in Cochrane Database Syst Rev on April 18, 2012

Authors

May N Tsao1, Nancy Lloyd, Rebecca K S Wong, Edward Chow, Eileen Rakovitch, Normand Laperriere, Wei Xu, Arjun Sahgal

Author Affiliations

1: Department ofRadiationOncology,OdetteCancerCentre,Toronto,Canada. may.tsao@sunnybrook.ca.

Associated clinical trials:

IMRT Combined With Erlotinib for EGFR Wild Type Non-small Cell Lung Cancer With 4-10 Brain Metastases | NCT02556593

Whole Brain Radiotherapy Versus Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy for Brain Metastases (Amadeus) | NCT02220491

Stereotactic Radiotherapy of the Resection Cavity of Brain Metastases vs. Post-operative Whole-brain Radiotherapy (ESTRON) | NCT03285932

Whole Brain Radiation Therapy Alone vs. Radiosurgery for SCLC Patients With 1-10 Brain Metastases (ENCEPHALON) | NCT03297788

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