Prognostic Importance of Cumulative Intracranial Tumor Volume (CITV) in Gastrointestinal (GI) Brain Metastasis Patients Treated with Stereotactic Radiosurgery

The disease-specific Graded Prognostic Assessment (ds-GPA) for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) tract cancer brain metastases (BM) suggests Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS) as the only pertinent prognostic factor. We evaluated the prognostic importance of cumulative intracranial tumor volume (CITV).

Source: World Neurosurgery - October 8, 2018 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Rushikesh S. Joshi, Brian R. Hirshman, Mir Amaan Ali, Ali Alattar, Kate Carroll, Osamu Nagano, Hitoshi Aiyama, Toru Serizawa, Masaaki Yamamoto, Clark C. Chen Tags: Original article Source Type: research