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Brain MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation improves cognitive outcomes in small cell lung cancer
In the SWOG S1827 MAVERICK Phase III randomized trial, patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) who underwent regular brain MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) had significantly better cognitive failure-free…
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In the SWOG S1827 MAVERICK Phase III randomized trial, patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) who underwent regular brain MRI surveillance without prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) had significantly better cognitive failure-free survival (the primary endpoint of the trial), without an apparent difference in overall survival, according to results p
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