A view on the landscape of breast cancer brain metastases

Cancer metastasis at a glance: A brief view of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis

Cancer initiation and progression is a challenging scenario through developmental processes, which may be more complicated by occurrence of metastasis. Basically, diverse genetic alterations, including mutations, formation of truncated proteins and related pathways play key roles either in diagnosis or the most influential therapeutic purposes. ...

Cancer metastasis at a glance: A brief view of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis

Cancer initiation and progression is a challenging scenario through developmental processes, which may be more complicated by occurrence of metastasis. Basically, diverse genetic alterations, including mutations, formation of truncated proteins and related pathways play key roles either in diagnosis or the most influential therapeutic purposes. ...

Skin metastases in breast cancer: a review article

Breast cancer brain metastases: the last frontier

Breast cancer is a common cause of brain metastases, with metastases occurring in at least 10-16 % of patients. Longer survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer and the use of better imaging techniques are associated with an increased incidence of brain metastases. Unfortunately, patients who develop brain metastases tend to have poor prognosis with short overall survival. In addition,...

A patient perspective on brain metastases in breast cancer.

A decade of work as a patient advocate with women who have metastatic breast cancer has sensitized me to their fears and hopes as well as their feelings about available treatments. Although novel systemic therapies have extended survival and improved quality of life for many such patients during these past 10 years, there has been little comfort or hope in research news about brain metastases. ...