Authors: | Arbit, E.; Wronski, M. |
Article Title: | Clinical decision making in brain metastases |
Abstract: | Surgery for metastatic cancer of the brain parenchyma has been shown to increase length of survival, especially in patients with primary breast cancer, RCC, and lung cancer. The identification of prognostic variables common to patients with brain metastases has permitted development of therapeutic guidelines. |
Keywords: | chemotherapy; cranial irradiation; radiosurgery; carcinoma; resection; breast-cancer; radiation-therapy; cell lung-cancer; surgical-treatment; nervous-system metastases; stereotaxic |
Journal Title: | Neurosurgery Clinics of North America |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3 |
ISSN: | 1042-3680 |
Publisher: | W.B. Saunders Co-Elsevier Inc. |
Date Published: | 1996-07-01 |
Start Page: | 447 |
End Page: | 457 |
Language: | English |
ACCESSION: | WOS:A1996UX61000009 |
PROVIDER: | wos |
PUBMED: | 8823774 |
Notes: | Article -- Source: Wos |