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CA Cancer J Clin 1994; 44:96
doi: 10.3322/canjclin.44.2.96
© 1994 American Cancer Society
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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 44, Issue 2 96-108, Copyright © 1994 by American Cancer Society

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Radiotherapy for brain tumors

N. J. Laperriere and M. Bernstein
Department of Radiation Oncology, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Improved techniques of radiotherapy have led to marked improvement in the results of radiotherapy for certain brain tumors, such as medulloblastoma and pineal germinoma, but results for malignant astrocytoma, the most common brain tumor, have been modest. This article reviews results of radiotherapy for brain tumors in adult patients over the last decade and comments on the new approaches being studied.




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