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. 2012 Apr 18;2012(4):CD003869. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003869.pub3

Scott 2007

Methods RCT
enrolled: 538 (non‐small cell lung cancer, breast cancer and other primaries)
evaluated: 106 (subgroup of breast cancer)
Participants brain metastases
RTOG recursive partitioning analysis (class I or II)
no prior treatment of brain metastases (except partial resection allowed)
chemotherapy discontinued at least 7 days prior to the start of whole brain radiotherapy and not to be restarted until at least 1 month after whole brain radiotherapy
excluded small cell lung cancer, germ cell tumours and lymphomas
Interventions whole brain radiotherapy
versus
whole brain radiotherapy and efaproxiral
Outcomes Primary:
overall survival
Secondary:
quality of life
Notes subgroup analysis (not a priori)