Background: This study was performed to assess patient survival and treatment toxicity after helical tomotherapy (HT) with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) radiotherapy (RT) for cancer patients with one to eight brain metastases (BM) who have been treated with or without surgery. Materials and Methods: A total of 48 brain metastasis (BM) patients were included in this retrospective study bet...

CONTEXT For the treatment of a single metastasis to the brain, surgical resection combined with postoperative radiotherapy is more effective than treatment with radiotherapy alone. However, the efficacy of postoperative radiotherapy after complete surgical resection has not been established. OBJECTIVE To determine if postoperative radiotherapy resulted in improved neurologic control of diseas...

Carcinomatous meningitis is a rare clinical entity associated with gynaecological malignancies. However, it is an unusual occurrence in carcinoma of uterine cervix. Here we report a case of a 55-year-old female who was diagnosed to have carcinoma of uterine cervix stage IIB and was started on radiotherapy to whole pelvis with curative intent. One week later she complained of sudden onset of hea...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Late brain metastases from breast cancer are a rare event. Only a few cases have been reported in the English literature. The authors describe the clinical and pathological remarks, together with treatment modalities, removal extent and overall survival, of 11 patients in whom brain metastases were detected more than 10 years from the primary tumor. PATIENTS AND METHODS Be...