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SUBMITTER: Colaco R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4445437 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Yale journal of biology and medicine 20150601 2
Up to 40 percent of all cancer patients develop brain metastasis (BM) during the course of their disease. Despite advances in diagnosis and therapy, prognosis in patients with BM remains poor for many patients, but for some, survival can be of the order of several years in duration. Difficulty in predicting long-term survivors has created controversy in contemporary management of BM. Minimizing medical and neurocognitive side effects (disease borne or iatrogenic) to enhance functional independen ...[more]