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Radiation Therapy of Tumours Involving the Skull Base

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

David G. Payne
David G. Payne*
Affiliation:
Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto
*
Princess Margaret Hospital of the 500 Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4X 1K9
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Abstract:

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The author reviews the Princess Margaret Hospital (Ontario Cancer Institute) experience with radiation therapy in certain tumours involving the skull base including meningiomas, chordomas, craniopharyngiomas and other less common tumours. Radiation therapy offers an effective supplementary or alternative treatment for such lesions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue S4 , November 1985 , pp. 363 - 365
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1985

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