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Brain Metastases in NSCLC - are TKIs Changing the Treatment Strategy?
Anticancer research - 1 Nov 2015
Dempke Wolfram C M, Edvardsen Klaus, Lu Shun, Reinmuth Niels, Reck Martin, Inoue Akira
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Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ranks as a leading cause of cancer-related death globally. Brain metastases are a frequent complication of NSCLC, with 25-40% of patients developing brain metastases during the course of the disease, often within the first 2 years after diagnosis of the primary tumor. Improvements in neurological symptoms and performance status have been reported with whole-brain radiation...
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