Current approaches to the management of brain metastases

JH Suh, R Kotecha, ST Chao, MS Ahluwalia… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Brain metastases are a very common manifestation of cancer that have historically been
approached as a single disease entity given the uniform association with poor clinical …

Multidisciplinary patient-centered management of brain metastases and future directions

JD Palmer, DM Trifiletti, V Gondi, M Chan… - Neuro-Oncology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The incidence of brain metastasis is increasing as improvements in systemic therapy lead to
increased survival. This provides new and challenging clinical decisions for patients who …

Multi-institutional analysis of prognostic factors and outcomes after hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy to the resection cavity in patients with brain metastases

KA Eitz, SS Lo, H Soliman, A Sahgal, A Theriault… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance For brain metastases, the combination of neurosurgical resection and
postoperative hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HSRT) is an emerging therapeutic …

Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) for surgically resected brain metastases: outcome analysis of an international cooperative study

CP Cifarelli, S Brehmer, JA Vargo, JD Hack… - Journal of neuro …, 2019 - Springer
Background and objective The ideal delivery of radiation to the surgical cavity of brain
metastases (BMs) remains the subject of debate. Risks of local failure (LF) and radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities and alternatives of modern radiation oncology and surgery for the management of resectable brain metastases

CD Diehl, FA Giordano, AL Grosu, S Ille, KH Kahl… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Brain metastases are of increasing concern in the management of cancer
patients. New systemic treatment options like specific targeting agents or immune …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and recent advances in resection cavity irradiation of brain metastases

G Minniti, M Niyazi, N Andratschke, M Guckenberger… - Radiation …, 2021 - Springer
Despite complete surgical resection brain metastases are at significant risk of local
recurrence without additional radiation therapy. Traditionally, the addition of postoperative …

Whole-brain radiation therapy versus stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral metastases

HK Perlow, K Dibs, K Liu, W Jiang… - Neurosurgery …, 2020 - neurosurgery.theclinics.com
Since the mid–twentieth century, whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) has been used to
treat patients with brain metastases using 2 lateral opposing fields to cover the entire brain …

Endoscope-assisted visualization of 5-aminolevulinic acid fluorescence in surgery for brain metastases

C Bettag, A Hussein, B Schatlo… - Journal of …, 2022 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Fluorescence-guided resection of cerebral metastases has been proposed as
an approach to visualize residual tumor tissue and maximize the extent of resection. Critics …

[HTML][HTML] Neoadjuvant fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy followed by piecemeal resection of brain metastasis: a case series of 20 patients

S Deguchi, K Mitsuya, K Yasui, K Kimura… - International journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background The safety and effectiveness of neoadjuvant fractionated stereotactic
radiotherapy (FSRT) before piecemeal resection of brain metastasis (BM) remains unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HFSRT) versus single fraction stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) to the resection cavity of brain metastases after …

M Waltenberger, D Bernhardt, C Diehl, J Gempt… - BMC cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background The brain is a common site for cancer metastases. In case of large and/or
symptomatic brain metastases, neurosurgical resection is performed. Adjuvant radiotherapy …