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 surgica...

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Main Authors: Johannes Lemke, Jan Scheele, Thomas Kapapa, Silvia von Karstedt, Christian Rainer Wirtz, Doris Henne-Bruns, Marko Kornmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-09-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/15/9/16816