Overall survival after initial radiotherapy for brain metastases; a population based study of 2140 patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Astrid Telhaug KarlssonMarianne Jensen HjermstadTherese OmdahlNina AassEva SkovlundTaran P HellebustSafora JohansenStein KaasaOlav Erich Yri

Published in: Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) (2021)

Overall survival after radiotherapy (RT) for BM improved during the study period, but only for patients treated with SRT. Survival after WBRT remains poor; its use should be questioned. DS-GPA and Lung-molGPA seem most useful in predicting prognosis considered for SRT.

Keyphrases

brain metastases
small cell lung cancer
early stage
locally advanced
radiation therapy
radiation induced
squamous cell carcinoma
rectal cancer