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Thermoradiotherapy for Brain Tumors

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Thermoradiotherapy and Thermochemotherapy

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Radiat Oncol))

Abstract

There has been much interest in using thermoradiotherapy in the treatment of primary brain tumors because patients treated conventionally have a poor prognosis despite a wide variety of treatment approaches (DAVIS 1989; NELSON et al. 1986) and because local disease progression is the predominant pattern of failure (BASHIR et al. 1988; GASPAR et al. 1992; HOCHBERG and PRUITT 1980; LIANG et al. 1991; WALLNER et al. 1989), even in patients undergoing aggressive treatment including an interstitial brain implant boost (AGBI et al. 1992).

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Sneed, P.K., Stea, B. (1996). Thermoradiotherapy for Brain Tumors. In: Thermoradiotherapy and Thermochemotherapy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60938-1_12

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