| Literature DB >> 24308678 |
Enrico Franceschi1, Marco Bartolotti, Rosalba Poggi, Monica Di Battista, Dario Palleschi, Alba A Brandes.
Abstract
For many years, brain metastases (BMs) have been considered as the final stage of a disease course and engendered skepticism about the efficacy of treatments. Local treatments, mainly, whole-brain radiotherapy have been the standard of care, whereas chemotherapy has been considered of limited efficacy due to the potential role of blood-brain barrier.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24308678 DOI: 10.1586/14737140.2014.856760
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Expert Rev Anticancer Ther ISSN: 1473-7140 Impact factor: 4.512