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Radiation for primary spine tumors.

Bilsky MH, Gerszten P, Laufer I, Yamada Y

Department of Neurosurgery, Box 71, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. bilskym@mskcc.org

Malignant primary tumors of the spine present difficult management problems because of the complexities of en bloc resection and their chemoresistance and radioresistance. A combination of radiation techniques and advances in systemic therapy may ultimately provide improved local tumor control and cure for these treatment-resistant tumors.

Published 24 December 2007 in Neurosurg Clin N Am, 19(1): 119-23.
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