Recommended reading
Brain Metastases
By Franziska Ippen
Update your knowledge on brain mets: The following papers (in alphabetical order) will provide you with basic knowledge about epidemiologic features, clinical presentation, diagnostic options and treatment modalities for brain metastases from various primary tumors:
Brastianos_Clinical Discussion and Review of the Management of Brain Metastases_2013
Eichler_Multidisciplinary management of brain metastases_2007
Gavriolovic_Brain metastases epidemiology and pathophysiology_2005
Jenkinson_Management of cerebral metastasis Evidence-based approach for surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy_2011
Kaal_Vecht_Symptomatic management and imaging of brain metastases_2005
Kaal_Vecht_Therapeutic management of brain metastasis_2005
Kalkanis_The role of surgical resection in the management of newly diagnosed brain metastases_2010
Lin_Targeted therapies in brain metastases_2014
Mut_Surgical treatment of brain metastasis: A review_2012
Patchell_The management of brain metastases_2003
Peacock_Current therapeutic approaches in patients with brain metastases_2006
Seoane_Brain metastasis: New opportunities to tackle therapeutic resistance_2014
And if you want to know about prognostic factors, patient survival and algorithms for treatment decision, then the following three studies are worth reading (and are listed among the most important and most quoted papers in the current brain met literature):
Gaspar_Validation of the RTOG Recursive Partitioning Analysis (RPA)_2000
Sperduto_A New Prognostic Index and Comparison to Three Other Indices for Patients With Brain Metastases An Analysis of 1,960 Patients in the RTOG Database _2008
Sperduto_Diagnosis-specific prognostic factors, indexes, and treatment outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed brain metastases a multi-institutional analysis of 4,259 patients._2010
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