2020
Multi-institutional retrospective review of stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastasis in patients with small cell lung cancer without prior brain-directed radiotherapy.
Miccio JA, Barsky A, Gao S, Verma V, Noticewala SS, Jairam V, Johnson SB, Yu JB, Hansen JE, Aneja S, An Y, Decker RH, Bulent Omay S, Li J, Kurtz GA, Alonso-Basanta M, Lee JYK, Chiang VL, Park HS. Multi-institutional retrospective review of stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastasis in patients with small cell lung cancer without prior brain-directed radiotherapy. Journal Of Radiosurgery And SBRT 2020, 7: 19-27. PMID: 32802575, PMCID: PMC7406345.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWhole brain radiotherapyBrain metastasesOverall survivalNeurologic deathSmall-cell lung cancer (SCLC) brain metastasesCell lung cancer brain metastasesLung cancer brain metastasesSalvage whole brain radiotherapyMulti-institutional retrospective reviewSmall cell lung cancerMost SCLC patientsSCLC brain metastasesTime of SRSMedian overall survivalCancer brain metastasesCell lung cancerIntracranial progressionSCLC patientsUpfront radiosurgeryBrain radiationBrain radiotherapySelect patientsRetrospective reviewLung cancerStereotactic radiosurgery
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