A matched-pair analysis comparing 5x4 Gy and 10x3 Gy for metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) in patients with favorable survival prognoses
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A matched-pair analysis comparing 5x4 Gy and 10x3 Gy for metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) in patients with favorable survival prognoses
BACKGROUND It is currently not possible to get an approval of our ethics committee for a randomized trial cmparing 5x4 Gy and 10x3 Gy for MSCC that includes patients with favorable survival prognoses. Therefore, this matched-pair study following strict matching criteria was perfomed instead. METHODS In this study, 142 receiving 5x4 Gy were retrospectively matched (1:1) to 142 patients receivi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Oncology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1748-717X
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-015-0403-y