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SUBMITTER: Ayala-Peacock DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5667906 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ayala-Peacock Diandra N DN Attia Albert A Braunstein Steve E SE Ahluwalia Manmeet S MS Hepel Jaroslaw J Chung Caroline C Contessa Joseph J McTyre Emory E Peiffer Ann M AM Lucas John T JT Isom Scott S Pajewski Nicholas M NM Kotecha Rupesh R Stavas Mark J MJ Page Brandi R BR Kleinberg Lawrence L Shen Colette C Taylor Robert B RB Onyeuku Nasarachi E NE Hyde Andrew T AT Gorovets Daniel D Chao Samuel T ST Corso Christopher C Ruiz Jimmy J Watabe Kounosuke K Tatter Stephen B SB Zadeh Gelareh G Chiang Veronica L S VLS Fiveash John B JB Chan Michael D MD
Journal of neuro-oncology 20170821 2
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) without whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) for brain metastases can avoid WBRT toxicities, but with risk of subsequent distant brain failure (DBF). Sole use of number of metastases to triage patients may be an unrefined method. Data on 1354 patients treated with SRS monotherapy from 2000 to 2013 for new brain metastases was collected across eight academic centers. The cohort was divided into training and validation datasets and a prognostic model was developed for ti ...[more]