Matt Morgan: Whose leg is it anyway? Ownership and medicine
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چکیده
Brain metastases (BM) are the most common intracranial neoplasm in adults. Initially considered as an essentially terminal stage of advanced cancer, BM increasingly being recognized emerging area clinical interest. Their epidemiological characteristics have changed significantly, including increased incidence tumors frequently associated with BM, such lung and breast cancer or melanoma, but also a more frequent occurrence other primary tumor entities renal, colorectal ovarian cancer. commonly diagnosed multiple intracerebral sites, context controlled extracranial disease. Accordingly, progress development systemic treatments, together rationalized use surgical resection, radiosurgery whole-brain radiotherapy, led to increase number long-term survivors median survival. The recent emergence targeted therapies growing knowledge regarding specific biology should allow further improvements prognosis this devastating
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0959-8138']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1622