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Current neurosurgical management of brain metastases.

Andrews DW

Department of Neurosurgery, Thomson Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. david.andrews@jefferson.edu

Brain metastases occur in a third of patients diagnosed with cancer; without any intervention, the prognosis is quite poor with a median survival of 1 month. Because of the constraints of the blood-brain barrier, chemotherapy is not effective and treatment options include surgery, whole brain radiation, or stereotactic radiation. This chapter is devoted to a review of the current management options for treatment of brain metastases.

Published 8 April 2008 in Semin Oncol, 35(2): 100-7.
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