Bulletin du cancer
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Review Practice Guideline Guideline
[Standards, Options and Recommendations 2002 for the management of adult patients with intracranial gliomas (summary report)].
The "Standards, Options and Recommendations" (SOR) project, which started in 1993, is a collaboration between the Federation of French Cancer Centers (FNCLCC), the 20 French Regional Cancer Centers, and specialists from French public universities, general hospitals and private clinics. The main objective is the development of clinical practice guidelines to improve the quality of health care and the outcome of cancer patients. ⋯ This article is a summary version of the full document presenting the clinical practice guidelines with algorithms. The main recommendations concern the place of the surgery, radiotherapy, chemiotherapy, imagery and concomitant medical treatments in the specific treatment strategy of grade III and IV glioma, grade II glioma, gliomatosis cerebri, pilocytic astrocytoma, subependymoma, xanthoastrocytoma, intracranial ependymoma and brain stem glioma.
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Analysis of results of stereotactic irradiation for brain metastases for patients older than 70 years. ⋯ Radiosurgery in the elderly was efficient and well tolerated. Age alone should not be used to deny potentially beneficial radiosurgery to any patient with brain metastases.