Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
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We retrospectively evaluated the therapeutic outcomes of patients with primary spinal cord astrocytomas treated with conventional radiotherapy at our institute. ⋯ Our results are slightly worse than previous retrospective radiotherapy series in the literature. With new imaging and radiation therapy techniques, radiotherapy may have a role as an adjuvant treatment especially in subtotally resected tumors.