Epidemiology of brain metastases and leptomeningeal disease

N Lamba, PY Wen, AA Aizer - Neuro-oncology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Brain metastases affect a significant percentage of patients with advanced extracranial
malignancies. Yet, the incidence of brain metastases remains poorly described, largely due …

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 …

Radiation therapy for brain metastases: an ASTRO clinical practice guideline

V Gondi, G Bauman, L Bradfield, SH Burri… - Practical radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose This guideline provides updated evidence-based recommendations addressing
recent developments in the management of patients with brain metastases, including …

Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) guidelines 2019 for the treatment of colorectal cancer

Y Hashiguchi, K Muro, Y Saito, Y Ito, Y Ajioka… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The number of deaths from colorectal cancer in Japan continues to increase. Colorectal
cancer deaths exceeded 50,000 in 2016. In the 2019 edition, revision of all aspects of …

Hippocampal avoidance during whole-brain radiotherapy plus memantine for patients with brain metastases: phase III trial NRG oncology CC001

PD Brown, V Gondi, S Pugh, WA Tome… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Radiation dose to the neuroregenerative zone of the hippocampus has been
found to be associated with cognitive toxicity. Hippocampal avoidance (HA) using intensity …

Brain metastases

AS Achrol, RC Rennert, C Anders, R Soffietti… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
An estimated 20% of all patients with cancer will develop brain metastases, with the majority
of brain metastases occurring in those with lung, breast and colorectal cancers, melanoma …

Estimating survival in patients with lung cancer and brain metastases: an update of the graded prognostic assessment for lung cancer using molecular markers (Lung …

PW Sperduto, TJ Yang, K Beal, H Pan, PD Brown… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States
and worldwide. As systemic therapies improve, patients with lung cancer live longer and …

[HTML][HTML] Dexamethasone and supportive care with or without whole brain radiotherapy in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases …

P Mulvenna, M Nankivell, R Barton, C Faivre-Finn… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) and dexamethasone are widely used to treat
brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), although there have been no …

Diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases from solid tumors: guidelines from the European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO)

R Soffietti, U Abacioglu, B Baumert, SE Combs… - Neuro …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The management of patients with brain metastases has become a major issue due to the
increasing frequency and complexity of the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. In 2014 …

Stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with multiple brain metastases (JLGK0901): a multi-institutional prospective observational study

M Yamamoto, T Serizawa, T Shuto, A Akabane… - The Lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background We aimed to examine whether stereotactic radiosurgery without whole-brain
radiotherapy (WBRT) as the initial treatment for patients with five to ten brain metastases is …