Outcomes of prophylactic cranial irradiation in patients with small cell lung cancer in the modern era of baseline magnetic resonance imaging of the brain.
Mads Kjaergaard HeldOlfred HansenTine SchytteKarin Holmskov HansenRana BahijMorten NielsenTine Bjørn NielsenStefan Starup JeppesenPublished in: Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden) (2021)
This study found that PCI in LS-SCLC patients staged with brain MRI had lower incidence of symptomatic BM and improved survival outcomes suggesting PCI as standard of care. Similar benefit of PCI in patients with ES-SCLC was not found.
Keyphrases
- magnetic resonance imaging
- small cell lung cancer
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- coronary artery disease
- acute coronary syndrome
- acute myocardial infarction
- end stage renal disease
- antiplatelet therapy
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- contrast enhanced
- white matter
- resting state
- healthcare
- atrial fibrillation
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- computed tomography
- risk factors
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- peritoneal dialysis
- type diabetes
- multiple sclerosis
- diffusion weighted imaging
- cerebral ischemia
- adipose tissue
- left ventricular
- weight loss
- radiation induced
- glycemic control