Brain Metastases in Gastrointestinal Cancers: Is there a Role for Surgery?

About 10% of all cancer patients will develop brain metastases during advanced disease progression. Interestingly, the vast majority of brain metastases occur in only three types of cancer: Melanoma, lung and breast cancer. In this review, we focus on summarizing the prognosis and impact of surgical...

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Main Authors: Lemke, Johannes, Scheele, Jan, Kapapa, Thomas, von Karstedt, Silvia, Wirtz, Christian Rainer, Henne-Bruns, Doris, Kornmann, Marko
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: MDPI 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200819/