Meta-analysis of radiation therapy with and without adjuvant chemotherapy for malignant gliomas in adults

A. Fine, Howard; Dear, Keith; S. Loeffler, Jay; Black, Peter; P. Canellos, George

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19930415)71:8<2585::aid-cncr2820710825>3.0.co;2-s

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Meta-analysis of radiation therapy with and without adjuvant chemotherapy for malignant gliomas in adults

Published in Cancer • Apr 15, 1993

Authors:

Howard A. Fine

Keith Dear

Jay S. Loeffler

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The value of chemotherapy after standard postoperative external beam radiation in the treatment of malignant gliomas remains controversial. Despite recent recommendations from the Brain Tumor Cooperative Group that chemotherapy should be considered part of the standard treatment of patie...

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Medicine

Chemotherapy

Anaplastic astrocytoma

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