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25 paź 2022 · Brain metastases occur when cancer cells spread from their original site to the brain. Any cancer can spread to the brain, but the types most likely to cause brain metastases are lung, breast, colon, kidney and melanoma. Brain metastases may form one tumor or many tumors in the brain.
30 maj 2024 · Brain metastases are estimated to account for approximately 25-50% of intracranial tumors in hospitalized patients. Due to great variation in imaging appearances, these metastases present a common diagnostic challenge that can importantly affect the management approach for individual patients.
3 kwi 2023 · Brain metastases are a common complication of cancer and the most common type of brain tumor. Anywhere from 10% to 26% of patients who die from their cancer will develop brain metastases.
13 lip 2021 · Brain metastases occur when cancer cells travel through the bloodstream to the brain, causing tumors to grow. Symptoms include pain, behavior changes, or seizures.
17 sty 2019 · Brain metastases are thought to occur via seeding of circulating tumour cells into the brain microvasculature; within this unique microenvironment, tumour growth is promoted and the...
15 wrz 2020 · Conventional wisdom has rendered patients with brain metastases ineligible for clinical trials for fear that poor survival could mask the benefit of otherwise promising treatments. Our group previously published the diagnosis-specific Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA).
28 lis 2019 · Her work demonstrates that brain metastases show branched or divergent evolution, and harbour clinically significant drivers that are distinct from clinically sampled primary tumours.
