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Targeting brain metastases in patients with melanoma.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2013
Papadatos-Pastos Dionysis, Soultati Aspasia, Harries Mark
Abstract excerpt
Patients with brain metastases from malignant melanoma historically have a very poor outcome. Surgery and radiotherapy can be used, but for the majority of patients the disease will progress quickly. In the recent past, patients with brain metastases derived only minimal benefit from cytotoxic chemotherapy. Novel therapies that have been shown to be superior to chemotherapy in metastatic melanoma have made their...
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