2021
SURG-02. Stereotactic Laser Ablation (SLA) followed by consolidation stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) as a treatment strategy for brain metastasis that recurred locally after initial radiosurgery (BMRS): a collaborative institutional experience
Pena-Pino I, Ma J, Hori Y, Fomchenko E, Dusenbery K, Reynolds M, Wilke C, Yuan J, Barnett G, Chiang V, Mohammadi A, Chen C. SURG-02. Stereotactic Laser Ablation (SLA) followed by consolidation stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) as a treatment strategy for brain metastasis that recurred locally after initial radiosurgery (BMRS): a collaborative institutional experience. Neuro-Oncology Advances 2021, 3: iii23-iii23. PMCID: PMC8351296, DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdab071.095.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchStereotactic laser ablationStereotactic radiosurgeryOverall survivalTreatment strategiesLocal controlDays of SRSSymptomatic radiation necrosisMedian overall survivalSystemic disease progressionRepeat stereotactic radiosurgeryIndependent clinical trialsInitial radiosurgerySteroid therapyBrain metastasesClinical outcomesRadiation necrosisFavorable outcomeClinical trialsDisease progressionFLAIR volumeInstitutional experiencePatientsCE volumeRadiosurgeryLocal failure
2019
Role of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study of the International Radiosurgery Research Foundation (IRRF)
Cifarelli CP, Vargo JA, Fang W, Liscak R, Guseynova K, Warnick RE, Lee CC, Yang HC, Borghei-Razavi H, Maiti T, Siddiqui ZA, Yuan JC, Grills IS, Mathieu D, Touchette CJ, Cordeiro D, Chiang V, Hess J, Tien CJ, Faramand A, Kano H, Barnett GH, Sheehan JP, Lunsford LD. Role of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study of the International Radiosurgery Research Foundation (IRRF). Neurosurgery 2019, 87: 664-671. PMID: 31599324, PMCID: PMC7780439, DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyz428.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSmall cell lung cancerWhole-brain irradiationSCLC brain metastasesInternational Radiosurgery Research FoundationDistant brain failureBrain metastasesOverall survivalStereotactic radiosurgerySCLC patientsBrain failureLung cancerPrior whole-brain irradiationMulti-institutional retrospective reviewKaplan-Meier survival analysisCox proportional hazards modelLocal failureProphylactic cranial irradiationInstitutional retrospective studyMedian marginal doseOngoing prospective trialsCell lung cancerGamma knife radiosurgeryInstitutional review boardValue of radiosurgeryBinary logistic regression