Scott 2007
| Methods | RCT enrolled: 538 (non‐small cell lung cancer, breast cancer and other primaries) evaluated: 106 (subgroup of breast cancer) |
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| 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 |
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| Interventions | whole brain radiotherapy versus whole brain radiotherapy and efaproxiral |
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| Outcomes | Primary: overall survival Secondary: quality of life |
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| Notes | subgroup analysis (not a priori) | |