Titlebook: Glioma; Principles and Pract A. B. M. F. Karim,Edward R. Laws Conference proceedings 1991 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991 Chemothera

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Surgery in the Treatment of Malignant Glioma: Current Status and Future Perspectives,esection produces better results than does minimal resection, with a mortality of 10%. The mortality was reduced dramatically, to below 3%, with the introduction of dexamethasone in the early 1960s (Jelsma and Bucy 1967). Patients were also seen to be in better neurological condition in the immediat

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Stereotactic Interstitial Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Gliomas: Current Status, Results, and thever be a completely appropriate solution for brain gliomas because surgery aims at localized lesions, and gliomas are in general poorly localized [5–7, 10, 29]. The effectiveness of external beam radiotherapy, although questioned for differentiated gliomas in younger age groups, is beyound doubt an

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Hypoxic Cell Sensitizers in the Management of Brain Tumours,oyed treatment of surgery followed by radiotherapy, with or without ad­juvant chemotherapy. The median survival time (MST) in most series is around 9 months, and less than 10% of patients are surviving at 2 years.

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Radiation Injury to the Brain,cluded in the irradiated volume. A risk of radiation-induced complications is a necessary price of tumour control. The size of the risk of complications that the radiation oncologist is prepared to accept on behalf of the patient depends on the clinical situation, and in particular on the morphology

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Recurrent Low-Grade Gliomas: Dedifferentiation and Prospects of Reoperation,cases. Low-grade gliomas are no exception. In addition, recurrences occur frequently. These can be treated by several methods, most frequently by radio- or chemotherapy, and occasionally by both in combination. Relatively little attention is paid to reoperations and their effect on the survival of p

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Chemotherapy for Cerebral Gliomas: Current Status and Future Perspectives,e prognosis of an individual patient with a cerebral glioma depends more on precise tumour type and grade, as well as on the patient’s age and his performance score after surgery, than on operative, radiotherapeutic or chemotherapeutic interventions, However, the evidence from numerous empirical cli