Palliative Radiotherapy for Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis–Analysis of Outcome, Prognostic Factors, and Symptom Response

Palliative Radiotherapy for Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis–Analysis of Outcome, Prognostic Factors, and Symptom Response

Introduction: The purpose of this article is to report our institution's 10-year experience on palliative radiotherapy for the treatment of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LC), assessing survival, neurologic outcome, and prognostic factors.Patients and methods: We retrospectively analyzed 110 pa...

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Main Authors: Rami A. El Shafie, Karina Böhm, Dorothea Weber, Kristin Lang, Fabian Schlaich, Sebastian Adeberg, Angela Paul, Matthias F. Haefner, Sonja Katayama, Juliane Hörner-Rieber, Philipp Hoegen, Sarah Löw, Jürgen Debus, Stefan Rieken, Denise Bernhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
leptomeningeal metastases
carcinomatous meningitis
neurologic function
palliative
radiotherapy
whole-brain radiotherapy
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2018.00641/full

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