Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Radiation Oncology cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " Whole brain radiation therapy in management of brain metastasis: results and prognostic factors. | Radiation Oncology BioMed Central Research Whole brain radiation therapy in management of brain metastasis results and prognostic factors Elisa Y Saito Gustavo A Viani Robson Ferrigno Ricardo A Nakamura Paulo E Novaes Cassio A Pellizzon Ricardo C Fogaroli Maria A Conte and Joao V Salvajoli Open Access Address Department of Radiation Oncology Hospital do Cancer Sao Paulo Brazil Email Elisa Y Saito - elisaito@ Gustavo A Viani - gusviani@ Robson Ferrigno - rferrigno@ Ricardo A Nakamura - ricardonakamura1@ Paulo E Novaes - novaespe@ Cassio A Pellizzon - cassiopellizzon@ Ricardo C Fogaroli - rcfogaroli@ Maria A Conte - contemaia@ Joao V Salvajoli - jvsalvajoli@ Corresponding author Published 29 June 2006 Radiation Oncology 2006 1 20 doi 1748-717X-1-20 Received 24 May 2006 Accepted 29 June 2006 This article is available from http content 1 1 20 2006 Saito et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Purpose To evaluate the prognostic factors associated with overall survival in patients with brain metastasis treated with whole brain radiotherapy WBRT and estimate the potential improvement in survival for patients with brain metastases stratified by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group RTOG recursive partitioning analysis RPA class. Patients and methods From January 1996 to December 2000 270 medical records of patients with diagnosis of brain metastasis who received WBRT in the Hospital do Cancer Sao Paulo . Camargo in the period were analyzed. The surgery followed by WBRT was used in 15 of patients and 85 of .
