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Altered Fractionation in Radiotherapy of CNS Tumors

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Hypofractionated radiotherapy approaches varying from single-fraction radiosurgery to 15-fraction short-course radiotherapy have been used with increasing frequency for managing a wide spectrum of benign and malignant primary tumors of the brain and skull base. Tumor control rates and complication rates appear comparable to those for fractionated conventional radiotherapy in most reports.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    John C. Flickinger

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  1. Allegheny General Hospital Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute, Drexel University College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Mark Trombetta

  2. Radiation Oncology Department, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jean-Philippe Pignol

  3. Allegheny Health Network, Temple University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paolo Montemaggi

  4. Hylda Cohn/American Cancer Society, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Luther W. Brady

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Flickinger, J.C. (2017). Altered Fractionation in Radiotherapy of CNS Tumors. In: Trombetta, M., Pignol, JP., Montemaggi, P., Brady, L.W. (eds) Alternate Fractionation in Radiotherapy. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2017_31

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