Author and Year

Primary disease

Age at irradiation and Gender

Maximum radiation dose (Gy)

Estimated spinal

cord dose at site of

recurrence (Gy)

Latency period (years)

Tumor type

Tumor location in spine

Follow-up period

Clifton et al., 1980

Hodgkin’s disease

21 M

50

49.69

6

GBM

Cervico-thoracic

10 wks*

Steinbock, 1980

Pulmonary tuberculosis

20 - 23 F

Unable to calculate

Unable to calculate

25

Low-grade astrocytoma

Cervico-thoracic

27 months

Marus et al., 1986

Thyroid cancer

19 F

58

45 - 55

23

Anaplastic astrocytoma

Upper thoracic

20 months*

Bazan et al., 1990

Hodgkin’s disease

19 M

40

Not calculated

7

Grade II - III astrocytoma

Cervical

6 months

Grabb et al., 1996

Medullomyo blastoma

3 F

54.4

30.0

17

Anaplastic astrocytoma

Cervical

4 months*

Riffaud et al., 2006

Hodgkin’s disease

30 M

40

Not calculated

9

Malignant glioma

Cervico-thoracic

Unknown

Yeung et al., 2006

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

28 F

86

Not calculated

7

GBM

Cervical

8 months

Ng et al., 2007

Hodgkin’s disease

23 M

30.60

Not calculated

3

GBM

Thoracic

Unknown, weeks*

Ahn & Kim 2012

Nasopharyngeal

Rhabdomyosarcoma

4 F

45

Not calculated

13

GBM

cervical

8 months

Kawanabe et al.

2012

Testicular seminoma

18M

30.6

Not Calculated

37

Anaplastic astrocytoma

thoracic

9 M*

Present case

Squamous cell

carcinoma of the

tongue base

50 M

73

40 - 50

7

GBM

Cervical

7 months*