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Use of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group recursive partitioning analysis classification system and predictors of survival in 19 women with brain metastases from ovarian carcinoma

Philip G. Chen, Shih‐Yuan Lee, Gene H. Barnett, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Jerrold P. Saxton, Peter Fleming, John H. Suh

Cancer · 2005 · 35 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

This is the first study to support the prognostic usefulness of the RTOG RPA classification for ovarian carcinoma patients with metastasis to the brain. The number of metastatic intracranial lesions should be included when determining the prognosis.

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