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Short-Course Radiation plus Temozolomide in Elderly Patients with Glioblastoma

Short-Course Radiation plus Temozolomide in Elderly Patients with Glioblastoma

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Short-Course Radiation plus Temozolomide in Elderly Patients with Glioblastoma

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Full title

Short-Course Radiation plus Temozolomide in Elderly Patients with Glioblastoma

Publisher

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Journal title

The New England journal of medicine, 2017-03, Vol.376 (11), p.1027-1037

Language

English

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Publication information

Publisher

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Older patients with glioblastoma appear to benefit more from treatment combining a shorter course (3 weeks rather than 6 weeks) of radiotherapy together with temozolomide than from radiotherapy alone.
Glioblastoma is a fatal illness that is associated with a median survival of less than 2 years. Population studies of glioblastoma have shown that...

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Short-Course Radiation plus Temozolomide in Elderly Patients with Glioblastoma

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1878181057

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1878181057

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ISSN

0028-4793

E-ISSN

1533-4406

DOI

10.1056/NEJMoa1611977

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