Neurosurgery

Lymphoma

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How do you treat a young woman of child bearing age group diagnosed with primary CNS lymphoma?

The CALGB regimen is quite complicated.

For primary CNS lymphoma, when do you refer for whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT)?

My experience has been that patients can be neurologically devastated years out from WBRT. In Medical Oncology practice at my institution, we do not r...

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How would you approach primary CNS lymphoma in an elderly patient over 80 years old?

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Should whole brain radiation therapy and orbital radiation therapy be administered in situations of ocular B-cell lymphoma recurrence 2 years after primary CNS lymphoma treated with intrathecal methotrexate and no prior cranial irradiation?

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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2002-12-15

Combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy for primary central nervous system lymphoma: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Study 93-10.

Lancet, 2009 Sep 18

High-dose cytarabine plus high-dose methotrexate versus high-dose methotrexate alone in patients with primary CNS lymphoma: a randomised phase 2 trial.

Neuro-oncology, 2009-04

High-dose methotrexate for elderly patients with primary CNS lymphoma.

Lancet Haematol, 2015 Jun 03

Methotrexate and temozolomide versus methotrexate, procarbazine, vincristine, and cytarabine for primary CNS lymphoma in an elderly population: an intergroup ANOCEF-GOELAMS randomised phase 2 trial.

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