Radiation Therapy to Sites of Metastatic Disease as Part of Consolidation in High-Risk Neuroblastoma: Can Long-term Control Be Achieved?

As part of consolidative therapy in high-risk neuroblastoma, modern protocols recommend radiation therapy (RT) both to the primary site and to sites of metastatic disease that persist after induction chemotherapy. Although there are abundant data showing excellent local control (LC) with 21 Gy direc...

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Published in:	International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics Vol. 100; no. 5; p. 1204
Main Authors:	Casey, Dana L, Pitter, Ken L, Kushner, Brian H, Cheung, Nai-Kong V, Modak, Shakeel, LaQuaglia, Michael P, Wolden, Suzanne L
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.04.2018
Subjects:	Abdominal Neoplasms - drug therapy Abdominal Neoplasms - pathology Abdominal Neoplasms - radiotherapy Adolescent Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - drug therapy Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - pathology Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - radiotherapy Bone and Bones - radiation effects Bone Neoplasms - prevention & control Bone Neoplasms - secondary Child Child, Preschool Consolidation Chemotherapy Feasibility Studies Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Induction Chemotherapy Infant Male Multivariate Analysis Neoplasm Recurrence, Local Neuroblastoma - drug therapy Neuroblastoma - radiotherapy Neuroblastoma - secondary Retrospective Studies Soft Tissue Neoplasms - prevention & control Soft Tissue Neoplasms - secondary Thoracic Neoplasms - drug therapy Thoracic Neoplasms - pathology Thoracic Neoplasms - radiotherapy Time Factors
ISSN:	1879-355X, 1879-355X
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