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Brain metastases in gastrointestinal cancers: is there a role for surgery?
- Source :
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 15, Iss 9, Pp 16816-16830 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- 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 resection of brain metastases originating from gastrointestinal cancers such as esophageal, gastric, pancreatic and colorectal cancer. The incidence of brain metastases is
- Subjects :
- Oncology
Palliative care
Esophageal Neoplasms
Colorectal cancer
medicine.medical_treatment
pancreatic cancer
Review
Neurosurgical Procedures
lcsh:Chemistry
brain metastases
Medicine
esophageal cancer
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Spectroscopy
Craniotomy
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Brain Neoplasms
Incidence
Palliative Care
General Medicine
Esophageal cancer
Prognosis
Computer Science Applications
Treatment Outcome
medicine.medical_specialty
gastrointestinal cancer
colorectal cancer
Catalysis
Disease-Free Survival
Inorganic Chemistry
Breast cancer
Internal medicine
Pancreatic cancer
Humans
Gastrointestinal cancer
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Molecular Biology
business.industry
Patient Selection
gastric cancer
Organic Chemistry
Carcinoma
Cancer
medicine.disease
Surgery
Pancreatic Neoplasms
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
Quality of Life
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14220067
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of molecular sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....706b8cea08275a6faf8d29ac79f9b346