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ArticleBiomedical reports2023

Radiation therapy outcomes of patients with pituitary macroadenoma.

Sardar Ali Khan, Waqas Shafiq, Umal Azmat, Ahmed Imran Siddiqi, Asim Munir Alvi, Sara Ashfaq, Hira Irfan, Muhammad Abu Bakar, Kashif Asghar

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Sardar Ali KhanDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Waqas ShafiqDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Umal AzmatDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Ahmed Imran SiddiqiDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Asim Munir AlviDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Sara AshfaqDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Hira IrfanDepartment of Endocrinology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Muhammad Abu BakarDepartment of Cancer Registry and Clinical Data Management, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Kashif AsgharDepartment of Basic Sciences Research, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Punjab 54000, Pakistan.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center · PK

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Abstract

Pituitary adenomas are one of the most common benign intracranial tumors, which are normally treated with surgery along with radiation therapy and medication such as dopamine agonist in prolactinoma. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the outcome of patients with pituitary macroadenoma who underwent radiation therapy. For the present retrospective study, a total of 75 patients with pituitary macroadenoma who received radiation therapy were included. Data was acquired from the electronic medical record system of the hospital. Mean ± standard deviation of the quantitative variables, such as age and sizes of the tumors, were reported. In addition, frequencies and percentages were presented for all categorical variables. To compare the frequency distribution in radiation therapy characteristics between functional and non-functional tumors, the χ

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hypopituitarismpituitary macroadenomaradiation therapy

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