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radiosurgery for spinal metastases

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:29 pm
by Olga
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center just posted a new article descr. their experience with radiosurgery for spinal metastases in 500 cases. The link to the abstract on the Pubmed.gov is

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... med_docsum

the number of the article on the Pubmed is 17224814, if above link is not working you can access the abstract by search by this number.
They state that "Long-term tumor control was demonstrated in 90% of lesions treated with radiosurgery as a primary treatment modality and in 88% of lesions treated for radiographic tumor progression."