Medulloblastoma: treatment results with radiation therapy

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981 · South. Med. J.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-198109000-00006· OSTI ID:6056721

Lowery, G S; Ferree, C R; Raben, M

The treatment results in 18 patients with medulloblastoma were reviewed retrospectively. All patients were treated postoperatively with simultaneous craniospinal irradiation. Forty-four percent of the total group were alive without evidence of disease. Six of the 12 patients eligible for analysis at three years after completion of treatment had continuous disease-free survival. Six patients with intracranial recurrence received a second course of whole-brain irradiation, and two these are alive.

• Research Organization: Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
• OSTI ID: 6056721
• Journal Information: South. Med. J.; (United States), Vol. 74:9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BRAIN
NEOPLASMS
RADIOTHERAPY
ATROPHY
LEUKOPENIA
PARTIAL BODY IRRADIATION
RADIATION DOSES
TUMOR CELLS
ANIMAL CELLS
BODY
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
DISEASES
DOSES
EXTERNAL IRRADIATION
HEMIC DISEASES
IRRADIATION
MEDICINE
NERVOUS SYSTEM
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ORGANS
PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES
RADIOLOGY
THERAPY
550603* - Medicine- External Radiation in Therapy- (1980-)