Abdul Karim Ghaith, Ryan Nguyen, Victor Gabriel El-Hajj, Alaa Montaser, Gaetano De Biase, Krishnan Ravindran, Carlos Perez-Vega, Seung Jin Lee, Asmina Dominari, Umberto Battistin, Paola Suárez-Meade, Charbel Moussalem, Naresh P Patel, Maziyar A Kalani, Michelle J Clarke, Peter S Rose, Mohamad Bydon, Kingsley Abode-Iyamah, Oluwaseun O Akinduro
OBJECTIVE: Chordomas are rare tumors of the skull base and spine believed to arise from the vestiges of the embryonic notochord. These tumors are locally aggressive and frequently recur following resection and adjuvant radiotherapy. Proton therapy has been introduced as a tissue-sparing option because of the higher level of precision that proton-beam techniques offer compared with traditional photon radiotherapy. This study aimed to compare recurrence in patients with chordomas receiving proton versus photon radiotherapy following resection by applying tree-based machine learning models...
May 2024: Neurosurgical Focus