Current approaches to the management of brain metastases

JH Suh, R Kotecha, ST Chao, MS Ahluwalia… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
Brain metastases are a very common manifestation of cancer that have historically been
approached as a single disease entity given the uniform association with poor clinical …

Treatment strategies for breast cancer brain metastases

C Bailleux, L Eberst, T Bachelot - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Brain metastases from breast cancer (BCBM) constitute the second most common cause of
brain metastasis (BM), and the incidence of these frequently lethal lesions is currently …

Radiation therapy for brain metastases: an ASTRO clinical practice guideline

V Gondi, G Bauman, L Bradfield, SH Burri… - Practical radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose This guideline provides updated evidence-based recommendations addressing
recent developments in the management of patients with brain metastases, including …

Survival in patients with brain metastases: summary report on the updated diagnosis-specific graded prognostic assessment and definition of the eligibility quotient

PW Sperduto, S Mesko, J Li, D Cagney… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Conventional wisdom has rendered patients with brain metastases ineligible for
clinical trials for fear that poor survival could mask the benefit of otherwise promising …

X-rays can trigger the FLASH effect: Ultra-high dose-rate synchrotron light source prevents normal brain injury after whole brain irradiation in mice

P Montay-Gruel, A Bouchet, M Jaccard, D Patin… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study is the first proof of concept that the FLASH effect can be triggered by X-rays. Our
results show that a 10 Gy whole-brain irradiation delivered at ultra-high dose-rate with …

Current clinical brain tumor imaging

JE Villanueva-Meyer, MC Mabray, S Cha - Neurosurgery, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Neuroimaging plays an ever evolving role in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and post-
therapy assessment of brain tumors. This review provides an overview of current magnetic …

Preservation of memory with conformal avoidance of the hippocampal neural stem-cell compartment during whole-brain radiotherapy for brain metastases (RTOG …

V Gondi, SL Pugh, WA Tome, C Caine… - Journal of Clinical …, 2014 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Hippocampal neural stem-cell injury during whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) may
play a role in memory decline. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy can be used to avoid …

Stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with multiple brain metastases (JLGK0901): a multi-institutional prospective observational study

M Yamamoto, T Serizawa, T Shuto, A Akabane… - The Lancet …, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background We aimed to examine whether stereotactic radiosurgery without whole-brain
radiotherapy (WBRT) as the initial treatment for patients with five to ten brain metastases is …

[HTML][HTML] Phase 3 trials of stereotactic radiosurgery with or without whole-brain radiation therapy for 1 to 4 brain metastases: individual patient data meta-analysis

A Sahgal, H Aoyama, M Kocher, B Neupane… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose To perform an individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of randomized controlled
trials evaluating stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) with or without whole-brain radiation …

Impact of breast cancer molecular subtypes on the incidence, kinetics and prognosis of central nervous system metastases in a large multicentre real-life cohort

A Darlix, G Louvel, J Fraisse, W Jacot, E Brain… - British journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Background Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) behaviour differs depending on hormone
receptors (HR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2) statuses. Methods The …